When lovely woman stoops to folly the wasteland is an allusion to?
Score: 4.6/5 (5 votes) The allusion here is to Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). Olivia has been seduced and abandoned by Squire Thornhill. In her community, sex outside marriage means shame for herself and her family.When lovely woman stoops to folly occurs in a play written by...