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The School for Scandal and Other Plays: "The Rivals"; "The Critic"; "The School for Scandal" (Classics) Book
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Foyles
The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses brilliant comedy to deflate hypocrisy and satirize the manners of his age. In The Rivals, Captain Absolute becomes his own rival for the hand of Lydia Languish - wooing her under another name, while her aunt, the verbally inept Mrs Malaprop, wishes her to marry the real Captain. School for Scandal continues the theme of imposture when Sir Oliver tests his nephews by appearing to them in disguise, and learns that reputation and the approval of society are of little value. And The Critic, featuring the pompous Puff and the arrogant Sneer, is a mocking depiction of the theatre, playwrights and, of course, critics.
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Penguin
'His Comic Muse does not go about prying into obscure corners, or collecting idle curiosities, but shows her laughing face, and points to her rich treasure - the follies of mankind' Thus wrote William Hazlitt of Sheridan, whom he thought shone 'like Hesperus' among the comic writers of the eighteenth century.
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ASDA
Includes three plays The Rivals School for Scandal The Critic. In The Rivals Captain Absolute becomes his own rival for the hand of Lydia Languish - wooing her under another name while her aunt the verbally inept Mrs Malaprop wishes her to marry the real Captain.
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Waterstones
Includes three plays ''The Rivals'', ''School for Scandal'', ''The Critic''. In ''The Rivals'', Captain Absolute becomes his own rival for the hand of Lydia Languish - wooing her under another name, while her aunt, the verbally inept Mrs Malaprop, wishes her
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Pickabook
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Eric Rump (Editor), Eric Rump
- 014043240X
- 9780140432404
- Richard Sheridan
- 27 May 2004
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 288
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