The Rivals: A Radio Dramatization (By Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/147931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rivals: A Radio Dramatization Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Narrator: The Colonial Radio Players Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 7, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the suave young officer who is 'forced' by his father to marry the very girl to whom he is secretly engaged must always please; but first audiences were as uncertain as later critics about how to evaluate his neurotic friend Faulkland, who invents a series of caveats for his marriage to the earnest Julia. A country squire who becomes alarmingly foppish in town, an impetuous Irishman and the linguistically challenged Mrs Malaprop complete the cast.