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This edition of the complete plays of Sheridan, English dramatist, theatre manager, and politician, includes The Rivals and The School for Scandal, as well as six lesser-known works: St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, A Trip to Scarborough, The Camp, The Critic, and Pizarro. the only one available in paperback B No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Sheridan's first dramatic accomplishment, The Rivals was "not well received" when first enacted. But after a quick revision in which the author shortened it and toned it down, it has been a notable success for centuries, not only for its familiar plot of a high-born lover (Capt. Jack Absolute) pretending baseness to woo his beloved (the sentimental Lydia Languish), but for the marvelously misspeaking Mrs. Malaprop, the most delightful misuser of language since Shakespeare's Dogberry. Despite other Shakespearean echoes from Lear, Macbeth, Falstaff, and Hamlet, in the end the titular rivals avoid tragic bloodshed from dueling just as in Much Ado and Twelfth Night to allow the appropriate heteronormative romantic couplings to flourish. Making the play more difficult for a modern audience are its story's class-ist, sexist and racist foundations. ( )