The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Nick Hern Books

Published:21st Apr '94

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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...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1775.

This edition of the play, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is edited and introduced by Colin Counsell.

ISBN: 9781854590992

Dimensions: 160mm x 105mm x 7mm

Weight: 93g

128 pages