The Rivals
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The Rivals is a five-act comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. first performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, on 17 January 1775. It was his first play.
1795 playbill
Bob Acres and His Servant, illustration by Edwin Austin Abbey, c. 1895
Elsie Leslie as Lydia Languish in The Rivals, 1899. Photograph by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.
The Duenna
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The Duenna is a three-act comic opera, mostly composed by Thomas Linley the elder and his son, Thomas Linley the younger, to an English-language libretto by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. At the time, it
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the librettist
Portrait of Thomas Linley the Elder by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770
Illustration for the song Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd
The actress Mrs Harlowe as The Duenna, depicted by George Cruikshank in an engraving published 1823.