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• NAME: SONAL BARAIYA.
• CLASS: M.A.SEM-1.
• ROLL NO.: 34.
• TOPIC: THE RIVALS AS ANTI-SENTIMENTALCOMEDY.
• SUBMITTED: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
M. K. BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY.
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Richard Brinkley Sheridan.
• Richard Brinkley Sheridan was born on 30 October 1751, who was an Irish playwright and poet and also long term owner of the London. His plays are:
• The School For Scandal.
• A Trip to Scarborough.
• The Rivals.
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Anti- Sentimental Comedy.
• Anti-Sentimental Comedy is also called Comedy of Manner.
• Artificial Comedy.
• It is display in the Restoration in England.
• Developed by the Roman dramatist PLAUTUS and TERENCE.
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• It is directly connected with sophisticated upper class society.
• Its most striking manifestation are: Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Humors, Comedy of Manners, etc.
• Characteristics: 1)Wit2)Laughter3)Farce4)Irony5)Disguise
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THE RIVALS.
• The Rivals is a Comedy of Manners, a farce of mistaken identity that has much in common.
• The young lovers must overcome the interference of a country bumpkin and an elderly rich aunt.
• And a second couple provides a subplot and foil to the main romance.
• In the Rivals is the elderly aunt Mrs.Malaprop, who consistently butchers.
• Jack Absolute loves Lydia Languish.• Lydia is found of reading romances and thinks of
marring an ineligible man, below her status.
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• But she is disappointed to know that her lover belongs to rich family.
• Sheridan is here ridiculing the excessive solicitude and concern which an over sentimental lover like Faulkland experiences when separated form his beloved.
• Mrs.Malaprop is a conventional, practical woman whose attitude to marriage is business like.
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• Sir Anthony too is a practical, worldly man.
• Bob Acres at the end of the play he shows that he is more practical than other character by saying:
‘‘If I can’t get a wife without fighting for her, by any velour, I’ll live a bachelor.’’
Captain Absolute is a practical man and though he assumes the name and status of Ensign Beverley.
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