{"product_id":"rivals-16","title":"Rivals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLydia Languish, a young woman from a good family, holds to an impossible romantic ideal of love, and resolves only to marry a pauper. So Jack Absolute pretends to be a poor soldier in order to win her hand. Meanwhile, Jack's father is attempting to procure the match through the proper channel of Lydia's guardian, and Jack becomes a rival to himself, before he is finally challenged to duels by rival suitors in both his identities...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Brinsley Sheridan's play \u003cem\u003eThe Rivals\u003c\/em\u003e was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1775.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of the play, in the Nick Hern Books \u003cem\u003eDrama Classics\u003c\/em\u003e series, is edited and introduced by Colin Counsell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260032569688,"sku":"9781854590992","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781854590992_b5fd7998-ce96-475d-930d-2454ac00c6fa.jpg?v=1777849226","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rivals-16","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}