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- Title
RICHARDSON'S SIR CHARLES GRANDISON AND A POSSIBLE SOURCE FOR THE RIVALS.
- Authors
Moon, E. B.
- Abstract
The article informs that from the time of the first performances of "The Rivals," in 1775, critics were speculating on possible borrowings for some of the play's characters and scenes. In fact, author Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "Preface to the First Edition," written to explain why the play had been cut and rewritten after the disastrous first performance, was used to answer the accusations of plagiary. Critics since have agreed about the Iikelihood of some borrowings, particularly to do with characters Mrs. Malaprop and Lydia Languish. The former has been deemed to derive from Sheridan's mother's unfinished comedy, "A Journey to Bath," and the latter, more generally, from the satire of the ultra-romantic heroine in the comic drama of the period.
- Subjects
IMITATION in literature; RIVALS, The (Theatrical production); LITERARY characters; CRITICS; DRAMA; PLAGIARISM
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1984, Vol 31, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/31-1-50