The Rivals - Couverture rigide

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198319088 ISBN 13 : 9780198319085

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1968

Synopsis

Sheridan's gift for turning situations on their heads is at the foundation of this farcicial comedy of manners. In the word-play of the comic scenes and the sentimentality of the lovers, Sheridan was writing for an eighteenth-century audience which prided itself on its decorum, sensibility and love of language. The Rivals is still as successful today. David Garrick remarked on watching one of its first performances in 1775: 'I see this play will run,' and 'run' it has ever since.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1968
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198319088
• ISBN 13: 9780198319085
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Price Cecil
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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