The Critic
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01AYNLWA4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Needs to be adapted for the stage or screen. Simply hilarious. The characters are fresh today, almost as much as they were when this play was written. It has connections today to poor writers, poor critics, and everything in between.
It is the story of Puff, a literary public-relations man who has written a preposterous historical melodrama that embodies all the worst features of conventional verse dramas--among them bloated emotions, contrived plots, and absurd madness scenes. -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature. A delightful satire on stage conventions, The Critic has always been thought much funnier than its model, The Rehearsal (1671) by George Villiers. (in full The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsed) Burlesque drama in three acts by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, produced in 1779 and published in 1781. The critics of the title includ
. David Crane is an author and former economics editor of the "Toronto Star"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright who also served as a Whig member of the British House of Commons for over 30 years. Sheridan’s most famous plays are The Rivals and The School for Scandal. This edition of The Critic includes a table of contents.