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.
Comedy of manners
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The comedy of manners is a genre that uses wit and intellectual dialogue to satirize the social behaviors, artificialities, and strict codes of a specific contemporary society. In this genre, the cent
The Rivals
…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. The plot concerns…
This sculpture represents Thalia, muse of comedy and Melpomene, muse of tragedy. Museo del Prado. Dates: the body was sculpted 130 - 150 A.D., the head was sculpted during the last third of the 17th century.
Mosaic showing theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy. Roman artwork, 2nd century CE.