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Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Rivals, The - 9781854590992 - KSS0015158
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The Rivals, The

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Description for The Rivals, The Paperback. Series: Drama Classics. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 108 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear

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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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Drama Classics
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854590992
SKU
KSS0015158
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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