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The Rivals Critics Flashcards

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Maybank.

The intrigues of love in high society, the…

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…importance of status, inheritance and income are all referenced

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O’Toole.

Elegant comedy…

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…of manners

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Lewcock.

Sheridan used the artifices of the stage to demonstrate…

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…the masks men use to hide from reality and the consequences of taking the mask to the true face

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Baldwin.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive…

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…and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty

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Baldwin.

The signal of secret and violent…

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…inhumanity, the mark of cruelty

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Fiskin.

Corruption of…

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…reasonable attitudes

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Fiskin.

Sheridan creates a confusion of…

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….identities that attack sentimentality

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Reade.

Sheridan pushes the manners and stereotypes of the plays…

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…and society of the time to extremes…is is attacking attitudes to love and money

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Dr Johnson.

Lydia is a young woman to be…

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…reckoned with, her feistiness and recoursefullness is a taste of things to come

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Tompkins.

Represents a monumental…

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…effort to reorganise culture from a woman’s point of view

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Maybank.

Her books illustrate what she is meant to be…

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…moral and pious, and what she is, fashion conscience and sexual

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Billington.

The self-torturing Faulkland, forever testing the fidelity…

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…of his beloved Julia mixes the neurotic and the erotic

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Billington.

Scenes melt into each other as we watch Sheridan’s…

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…timeless satire on the caprices of passion

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Fiskin.

The Rivals is the corruption…

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…of reasonable attitudes

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O’toole.

Cliches of traditional…

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…melodrama turned on their heads

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Stern.

Sheridan criticises ideas by promoting…

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…them in a preposterous manner

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Maybank.

Jack enjoys a double identity as it…

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…increases his control over others

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Maybank.

Only self-inflicted caprice in each…

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…pair obstructs social harmony

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Reade.

He is attacking attitudes to love and money…

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…marriage and responsibilities, the battle of the sexes and the age

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Maybank.

Acres’ literalism with language makes him a comic…

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…counterpart to Mrs M, his referential oaths betraying his vain attempt to distinguish himself in a fashionable society

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Maybank.

Lucy embodies the calculated fostering…

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…of two traits-simplicity and guile- suggested by her outbursts of O Gemini

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Maybank.

The play’s imagery takes money as…

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…its metaphor, connecting it to intangibles such as love

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Maybank.

Lydia mounts a vigorous defence of her…

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…right to marry who she pleases

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Maybank.

Faulkland’s obsessions grow in comic amplification throughout scenes. He is presented as….

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…a self tormentor, his jealousy arising from insecurity

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Lewcock.

Sir A represents the man of absolute integrity…

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…but is the warning to the audience of being blind to the pretences of others

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Lewcock.

Where the novels hidden under books of sermons and advice…

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…on etiquette can be seen as a metaphor for hiding ones true feelings under masks of sentiment and decorum

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Lewcock.

Reputations can be sold…

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…as easily as painted appearances

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Lewcock.

The rivals exaggerates the idea of…

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…a society that exists by appearances

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Lewcock.

Lydia’s preoccupation with romantic, even erotic literature…

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…epitomises the depths of feeling which may be concealed under the mandatory surface of rationality

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Lewcock.

Faulkland exemplifies the refining of…

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…ones sentiments taken to the foolish yet logical extreme

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Lewcock.

In this context the duel becomes the threat of…

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…danger that is needed to bring Lydia to an acknowledgement of reality

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Lewcock.

He appears concerned not only to show the differences…

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…between appearances and reality but the consequences of false impressions

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Lewcock.

He illustrated many of the ways people consciously and unconsciously…

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…deceive themselves and others

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Lewcock.

The Rivals portrays the shifts and stratagems…

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…contemporary life might force people to adopt if they carried their ideals to extremes

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Ericson.

It is Jack’s inventiveness that…

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…establishes him at the heart of the play

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A.N.Kaul.

Sheridan is concerned with nothing less than the problem of women’s…

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…freedom in a society that looks upon women as property and upon marriage as a business transaction

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Groag.

The rivals addresses that the conflict between the illusion of Romance and…

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…the warning signs of common sense

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Groag.

Lydia believes that…

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…love conquers all adversity

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Groag.

Mrs Malaprop hopes love…

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…will restore lost youth

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Groag.

Bob Acres expects it to…

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…give him style and courage

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Gross.

The rivals addresses the…

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…conduct of life

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Groag.

All believe that love conquers all, that love…

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…can overcome even poverty and sadness and death

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Groag.

Jack and Julia are the children of…

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…the Age of Reason, who see everything from a perspective that propels the social world forward

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Groag.

The world clearly could not…

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…function if we all loved like Lydia and Faulkland

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Groag.

There should be little regret…

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…about the loss of the idealism who love not too wisely but too well

46
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Conflicts

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Elegance and absurdity, wit and farce, realism and modernity of the dialogue

47
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Sheridan presents us with a society struggling with the rivalry…

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…between the tyrannical old order and a softer new order.

48
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Language: it’s power to entertain, subvert and to capture…

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…social and cultural behaviour. Accuracy and truth

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