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The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions and personal animosities. The Critic satirises the panic of the summer in the form of the comically misconceived tragedy 'The Spanish Armada' that is in rehearsal in the second and third acts, but The Critic ends with genuine patriotic feeling. This edition traces both the political and the theatrical objects of Sheridan's satire and discusses its reliance (and improvement) on earlier meta-theatrical burlesques like The Duke of Buckingham's Restoration romp The Rehearsal.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Critic
• Author: Richard B Sheridan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780713631883
• ISBN: 0713631880
• ID: 01371610
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 132 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 132 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. November 1989

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