The Rivals [Audiobook] download free by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Listen audiobook: The Rivals
- Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Release date: 1998/8/28
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780486404332
- Rating: 9.38 of 10
- Votes: 337
- Review by: Darrell Baumgartner
- Review rating: 9.14 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 1H14M26S in 256 kbps (19.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG-4 DST, FLAC, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, Apple Lossless (compression ARJ, TAR.BZ, AZW4, CBZ, RAR, ZIP, RZ)
- Total pages original book: 96
- Includes a PDF summary of 7 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 5M22S (1.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: During a brief but brilliant literary career, Irish-born dramatist and statesman Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) wrote cleverly plotted plays that revealed his nimble wit and keen eye for comic situations. Two of them - The School for Scandal and The Rivals - are among the funniest in the English language.The Rivals, brimming with false identities and with romantic entanglements carried on amid a cloud of parental disapproval, satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of the age. It features a cast of memorable characters, among them the lovely Lydia Languish, whose pretty head has been filled with nonsense from romantic novels; Capt. Jack Absolute, a young officer in love with Lydia; Sir Anthony Absolute, Jack's autocratic father; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, a fiery Irishman; and Jack's provincial neighbor, Bob Acres, a bumptious but lovable country squire in love with Lydia.Hoping to win Lydia's affection, Captain Jack woos the pretty miss by pretending to be a penniless ensign named Beverley, an act that nearly incites a duel with Acres. His actions also provoke serious objections from Lydia's aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, a misspeaking matron whose ludicrous misuse of words gave the English language a new term: malapropism. Ultimately, the hilarious complications are resolved in a radiant comic masterpiece that will entertain and delight theater devotees and students of English drama alike.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Plays, Playscripts
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 3.59 USD
- Dimensions: 132x210x5.33mm
- Weight: 68.04g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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