The Rivals and The Wife of Bath Critical Approaches

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Dr Johnson (Lydia)
"Lydia is a young woman to be reckoned with, her feistiness and resourcefulness is a taste of things to come"
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OCR Guided Reading Pack (marriage market)
"The Rivals is also a play concerned with the robust and practical aspects of the marriage market"
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Michael Billington (Faulkland)
"The self torturing Faulkland, forever testing the fidelity of his beloved Julia, mixes the neurotic and the ******"
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Michael Billington (melt)
" Scenes melt into each other as we watch Sheridan's timeless satire on the caprices of passion"
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Thomas Moore (whims)
"overcharged most of his persons with whims and absurdities, for which the circumstances they are engaged in, afford but a very disproportionate vent"
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H. Marshall Leicester Jr. (patricarchal)
"Alisoun is an early feminist striving for autonomy in an oppressive patriarchal society"
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Sally Kinnes (memorable)
"It is Chaucer's characters who are more memorable than their tales"
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Malcolm Hebron (sacrificing)
"We might see the Wife as sacrificing her feminity in pursuit of a feminist cause"
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Fradenburg (real women)
"We must assume the Wife of Bath is based on one or more real women"
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S.H. Rigby (social life)
"Medieval literature cannot be used directly to read off the reality of medieval social life"
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John Finlayson (copulation)
"She's made sex into a metaphorically financial obligation in marriage: the husband's copulation is paying of a debt to his wife."
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Nicole Smith (interlinked)
"For the Wife of Bath, money, sex and marriage are all interlinked and none can exist without the other"
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"The Rivals is also a play concerned with the robust and practical aspects of the marriage market"

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OCR Guided Reading Pack (marriage market)

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"The self torturing Faulkland, forever testing the fidelity of his beloved Julia, mixes the neurotic and the ******"

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" Scenes melt into each other as we watch Sheridan's timeless satire on the caprices of passion"

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Card 5

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"overcharged most of his persons with whims and absurdities, for which the circumstances they are engaged in, afford but a very disproportionate vent"

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