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and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov

that shall ye receive"

The Goatherd and the Wild Goats

The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Richard Brinsley Sheridan feed & dwell International WolfThe three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses brilliant comedy to deflate hypocrisy and satirize the manners of his age. In The Rivals, Captain Absolute becomes his own rival for the hand of Lydia Languish wooing her under another name, while her aunt,