end of the volume. The emphasis throughout has been placed on the study of the plays as plays, rather than as literary exercises.

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OLIVER GOLDSMITH

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

SOME FEATURES OF LONDON LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH

CENTURY

THE SCENE OF “THE RIVALS"

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMEDY

ACTING THE PLAYS IN SCHOOL

EXTRA READING

EXPLANATORY NOTES

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Marlow and Miss Hardcastle: Kyrle Bellew and Eleanor
Robson (1885)

Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

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Mr. Hardcastle
Diggory
Tony Lumpkin : John Howson (1884)

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A Post Chaise

84
Mrs. Malaprop and Sir Anthony Absolute: Mrs. Fiske and
Tom Foote (1925)

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Captain Jack Absolute Kenneth Thompson (1925)

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Sir Lucius O'Trigger and Lucy : Wilton Lackaye and Blanche
Bender (1898)

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Mrs. Malaprop: Mrs. John Drew (1879).

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Sir Lucius O’Trigger and Bob Acres W. L. Florence and
Joseph Jefferson (1879)

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Joseph Surface .

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Sir Peter and Lady Teazle: John Drew and Ethel Barrymore
(1925).

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Charles Surface, Gentleman, Bumper, Careless : Sidney

Harbert, C. Leclercq, H. Bosworth, James Macaulay (1891) 279
Charles Surface: John Drew (1891)

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A Sedan Chair .

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Sir Peter Teazle and Sir Oliver Surface: E. M. Holland and
Jacob Wendell (1891)

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Doctor Samuel Johnson

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Doctor Johnson Reading the Manuscript of Goldsmith’s “Vicar
of Wakefield"

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Resignation
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mrs. Sheridan .

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Drury Lane Theatre, Interior

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Drury Lane Theatre, Exterior .
Garrick between the Comic and Tragic Muses

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