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:
| ISBN: | 9780713667653 |
| Publication date: | 20th October 2004 |
| Author: | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tiffany Stern |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 182 pages |
| Series: | New Mermaids |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts Literary studies: plays and playwrights |
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.
The Rivals features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights
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The Rivals was written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tiffany Stern and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
The Rivals has 182 pages
Yes it is part of New Mermaids series
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