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memez
01-16-2010, 11:12 AM
i have Presentation about the Rivals and i need to talk about intresting topic i dont want somthing which can be easily founded in google or any famouse website plz help me with that :confused:

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01-16-2010, 03:38 PM
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Modest Proposal
01-17-2010, 04:37 AM
I read it for the GRE Literature test. I'm trying to remember which one of the dozen restoration comedies I read that one was. I remember he also wrote School for Scandal, but mostly I remember Malaprop(Sp?) who I believe was the character from which the titular term Malaporpism comes.
Wasn't there a lot about class differences in the marriage market? Also, isn't there a significant representation of conspicuous wealth? I think the easiest essay subject would be to examine the class/economic structures and imbalances apparent in the play.

dfloyd
01-17-2010, 07:56 AM
was an English playwrite of about the time of the American Revolution. Not a restoration playwrite. His two famous plays are The Rivals and School for Scandal. He wrote them both before he was twenty six. And he did invent the character of Mrs Malaprop, who consistently murders the English dictionary.

He was not only a playwrite of some talent, but a specchwriter. He was a member of parliament for some 30 years. He was buried in the Poets Corner of Westminister Abbey, but he could have been laid to rest near Fox and Pitt.

Sheridan wrote with more wit than Goldsmith who was light hearted and easy going. So a comparison of the styles of Sheridan versus Goldsmith or the styles of The Rivals and She Stoops to Conquer might be a topic to consider.