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A good title should be very apt and suggestive, at the same time attractive and striking, so as at once to captcha the attention of the audience or the readers. Just as a sign board indicates the contents of a shop so also a good title shows and indicates the central or the theme of the literary text. There are references in the play it self both to the mean and to the subtitle of the comedy by Goldsmith. Oliver Goldsmith uses She Stoops To Conquer as the main title with The Mistakes Of A Night as a subtitle.
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| She Stoops To Conquer |
The main title is related to the certain episode which deals with the heroine, Miss Kate Hardcastle's stooping first the position of a barmaid and then to that of a poor relation of the Hardcastle to conquer the heart of the Marlow whom her father chosen as her husband. The first title refers to the intention and plans of Miss Hardcastle who has fallen deeply in love with Marlow and it was Kate degrades from her position and stoops to play the role of a barmaid in order to conquer him. As Kate comes to know from her cousin Miss Neville that Marlow is a very singular character, extremely sign in the company of women of her own class but impudent enough in that of loose women, so she very well performs the role of a illiterate barmaid. Thus when the first title is concerned connected with the stooping of Miss Hardcastle then it proves truly appropriate.
The subtitle is also apt because the play deals with the mistakes Marlow and others make in the course of a single night. As the subtitle he is selected The Mistakes Of A Night so each and every character in the comedy in their mistaken or hidden identities. Marlow mistakes Mr. Hardcastle for an keeper, he is house for an inn, his daughter for a barmaid and many more. Miss Hardcastle mistakes her journey around her house for the one to the place of her aunt and her own husband for a highly robber she also mistakes Miss Neville's pretention and Hasting's flattery for truth. In this way both the first and the second title truly prove highly appropriate.