The rivals ; and The school for scandal / edited with an introduction and notes by Will David Howe.The rivals ; and The school for scandal / edited with an introduction and notes by Will David Howe.
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The rivals ; and The school for scandal / edited with an introduction and notes by Will David Howe.
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Description
319 p. ; 14 cm.
Contenu
The rivals. -- The school for scandal ; 16 characters (12m, 4w).
Sommaire
THE RIVALS : One of the best known eighteenth century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. Lydia Languish, a young woman from a good family, holds to an impossible romantic ideal of love, and resolves only to marry a pauper. So Jack Absolute pretends to be a poor soldier in order to win her hand. Meanwhile, Jack's father is attempting to procure the match through the proper channel of Lydia's guardian, and Jack becomes a rival to himself, before he is finally challenged to duels by rival suitors in both his identities.
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL ; Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and married a much younger wife in the hope that she will be too innocent to cross him. In fact, Lady Teazle spends her time with Lady Sneerwell and the worst set of scandalmongers in town, who have a beady eye on Charles Surface, the reckless young libertine, in expectation of seeing him ruined. Charles, however, turns out to possess the sterling virtues of generosity and loyalty to friends and family; and it is his hypocritical brother Joseph who ends up the villain of the piece.
Production
5 acts ; multiple sets ; 8m, 4w.
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Collaboration
Cote
D S552r 1913
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