The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political
and
theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish
invasion
seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions
and
personal animosities. The Critic satirises the panic of the summer
in
the form of the comically misconceived tragedy 'The Spanish
Armada'
that is in rehearsal in the second and third acts, but The Critic
ends
with genuine patriotic feeling. This edition traces both the
political
and the theatrical objects of Sheridan's satire and discusses
its
reliance (and improvement) on earlier meta-theatrical burlesques
like
The Duke of Buckingham's Restoration romp The Rehearsal.
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