The Rivals
About this book
A comedy of manners revolving around false identities, romantic entanglements, and parental disapproval satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of 18th-century society.
Subjects
- british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
- comedies
- criticism and interpretation
- description and travel
- drama
- drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries
- english comedy
- english drama
- english, irish, scottish, welsh
- english literature
- history and criticism
- plays
- plays / drama
- promptbooks
- readers
- rivals (sheridan, richard brinsley)
- scripts
- travel