In one of this play’s two prologues, a sergeant-at-law is bribed to read a statement to the audience on behalf of the author. In this play, a maid helps her mistress hide novels such as The Innocent Adultery before her guardian catches her reading. A character in this play is brought to tears after being scolded for her “mirth and song” and for performing country dances by her lover, Faulkland. A character in this play writes love letters under the name Delia to Sir Lucius O’Trigger. That character in this play claims that her niece is as “headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile” and “the very pine-apple of politeness.” In this play, Jack Absolute pretends to be Ensign Beverly to woo the romantic Lydia Languish. For 10 points, Mrs. Malaprop appears in what comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan? ■END■
ANSWER: The Rivals
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