• 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.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

• 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.

• 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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