The Rivals
2nd Edition
Published on 29. May 2014
192 pages
978-1-4081-4501-2 (ISBN)
Description
Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the suave young officer who is 'forced' by his father to marry the very girl to whom he is secretly engaged must always please; but first audiences were as uncertain as later critics about how to evaluate his neurotic friend Faulkland, who invents a series of caveats for his marriage to the earnest Julia. A country squire who becomes alarmingly foppish in town, an impetuous Irishman and the linguistically challenged Mrs Malaprop complete the cast. This edition includes the original preface and several prologues; in an appendix it lists all the fashionable books and songs to which the characters allude.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 b/w photos
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-4501-2 (9781408145012)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Tiffany Stern | Tiffany Stern
The Rivals
Book
10/2004
2nd Edition
Methuen Drama
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Persons
Dr Tiffany Stern is a former Research Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and is currently Senior Lecturer ar Oxford Brookes University.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- SUMMARY
- GENRE
- STRUCTURE
- THEMES
- CHARACTERS: WOMEN
- CHARACTERS: MEN
- DATE AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- RECENT STAGE HISTORY
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- SOURCES
- AUTHOR
- Further Reading
- The Rivals
- Preface
- Prologue
- Prologue Spoken on the Tenth Night
- Dramatis Personae
- The Play
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Larpent Variations
