The Critic

Critic, The

    Alternative Title: A Tragedy Rehearsed

    Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    First Performance: 1779, London

    Published: 1781

    Genre: Burlesque in 3 acts; prose and blank verse

    Setting: Dangle's home and a theatre, London, late 18th c.

    Cast: 20m, 8f, extras

Mr Dangle is obsessed with the theatre and, to his wife's dismay, plays host to critics, actors, and playwrights. With his fellow critic Sneer, Dangle attacks the questionable literary abilities of their visitor Sir Fretful Plagiary, but they are induced by Mr Puff to go to see a rehearsal of his latest play. This is The Spanish Armada, in which, while England prepares for the Spanish invasion, Tilburina, daughter of the Governor of Tilbury Fort, has fallen in love with prisoner Don Whiskerandos, son of the admiral...

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