The Rivals: A Comedy

Name: The Rivals: A Comedy
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
ISBN: 9781787367364

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Length: 114 pages
ISBN: 9781787367364
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

Bath, Lydia Languish wanting a novel’s poverty, Mrs Malaprop mangling the language, Captain Absolute disguised as penniless Beverly. Sheridan’s The Rivals is a comedy of mistaken love, a duel that should not happen, and words that refuse to behave. Sovereign ebook of the 1775 play. Eighteenth-century sparkle, a spa town, aunt and niece at cross purposes. Farce with a brain. The famous malapropisms, the sentiment Lydia borrowed from books, a resolution the stage still knows how to land.

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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