A Trip to Scarborough And The Critic

Name: A Trip to Scarborough And The Critic
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
ISBN: 9781787367371

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Length: 172 pages
ISBN: 9781787367371
Published: 20 August 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

comedy
mistaken identities
romance
societal satire
18th century
love entanglements
Bath society
witty dialogue
Captain Absolute
Lydia Languish

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Description

"A Trip to Scarborough" ingeniously merges Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Critic" and "Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse." Set in Scarborough, this comedic fusion follows the comical adventures of theater and society. Amid mistaken identities and amorous entanglements, characters journey for leisure, inciting uproarious chaos. Skillfully satirizing theater and societal norms, the play-within-a-play format offers witty commentary on human foibles, blending farce with astute critique.

Author

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) wrote the great English comedies of manners after Goldsmith — The Rivals, The School for Scandal — and managed Drury Lane as if theatre were politics by other means. Wit, gossip, and the duel of reputations: Sheridan made the drawing room a battlefield. His plays still teach how scandal sounds when it is funny.

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