by Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713631517
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«The Rivals» is the stage comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, published by Methuen Drama in paperback (125 pages, in English).
Comedy of manners set in English high society. Lydia Languish, a young woman passionate about romantic novels, scorns her suitors and falls for a humble-looking young man named Beverly, behind whom hides Captain Absolute. Misunderstandings and duels follow until identities are revealed.
Part of the New Mermaids collection, edited by Elizabeth Duthie. The play was originally published in 1775.
For those interested in classic English theatre and eighteenth-century comedies of manners.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777). He served as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan died in 1816 and was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the Western canon and are frequently performed around the world.
