
The Rivals
Edited by C. J. L. Price
Richard Brinsley Sheridan(Author)
Cecil Price(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 17. October 1968
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-19-831908-5 (ISBN)
Description
Sheridan's gift for turning situations on their heads is at the foundation of this farcicial comedy of manners. In the word-play of the comic scenes and the sentimentality of the lovers, Sheridan was writing for an eighteenth-century audience which prided itself on its decorum, sensibility and love of language. The Rivals is still as successful today. David Garrick remarked on watching one of its first performances in 1775: 'I see this play will run,' and 'run' it has ever since.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-831908-5 (9780198319085)
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