About this title: Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the suave young officer who is 'forced' by his father to marry the very girl to whom he is secretly engaged must always please; but first audiences were as uncertain as later critics about how to evaluate his neurotic friend Faulkland, who invents a series of caveats for his marriage to the earnest ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by previous owner. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light crease along spine, light aging. 176 p. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: A & C Black
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780713631517ISBN:0713631511
Description: Very Good. No spine creases, mild wear & small bend on cover. Lightly aged pages, no markings in text. Book Description: Immensely popular comedy of manners featuring such memorable characters as the lovely Lydia Languish, her suitor, Capt. Jack Absolute; and Lydia's aunt-Mrs. Malaprop, cleverly revolves around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval. Brilliant comic masterpiece satirizing the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society will entertain ... read more
Binding: Pocket Paperback
Publisher: J.M. Dent and Co
Description: Fair. Format: Pocket Paperback. Year: 1897. Small paperback. Flexisble cloth cover. Spine is well worn. Pages are good for reading. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780486404332ISBN:0486404331
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Never read but has sat on bookshop shelf. Slight Discoloration on page edges. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Motorbooks Intl, 1995
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780713631517ISBN:0713631511
Description: Near Fine. Paperback. Nice clean book in very good condition, near fine. Book Description: Immensely popular comedy of manners featuring such memorable characters as the lovely Lydia Languish, her suitor, Capt. Jack Absolute; and Lydia's aunt-Mrs. Malaprop, cleverly revolves around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval. Brilliant comic masterpiece satirizing the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society will entertain and delight students of ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harlan Davidson
Date Published: 1953
ISBN-13:9780882950914ISBN:0882950916
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light pencil marks on some pages. (R) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 99 p. Crofts Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Paperback Contains: a note on the staging. Ilustrated by Fritz Kredel. c1958, no printing date. 176p. Name written inside cover. Minor wear. Sticker remnants and bit of sticker removal damage. Barron's. No printing date. C1958. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc
ISBN-13:9780812001549ISBN:0812001540
Description: Very Good. 0812001540 Binding square and tight, no spine creasing. One faint crease of upper back corner. Pages clean and unmarked. Very minor helf/edge wear. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ships Immediately from CA. Free Upgrade to Expedited Shipping. read more
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Ernest Benn Litimed, London
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780393900446ISBN:0393900444
Description: mild cover wear/age name inside cover--but looks unread. 125 pages NEW MERMAIDS Edition jointly published with WW Norton, N. Y. --NEW MERMAIDS edition. very light wear, very good copy overall read more
"I loved this classic, the sarcasm and irony. If you like at all Shakespeare or The Importance Of Being Earnest you should read this book, it's funny, very amusing."
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