Women characters of anti-sentimental comedy There are three examples of them. "The Rivals", "She stoops to conquer' and "School of Scandles"

1. Name: Joshi Riddhi
Roll no: 37
Paper: The Neo-Classical Literature
M.A: Sem-1
Enrolment no: 2069108420180028
Year: 2017-19
E-mail: Www.riddhij8@gmail.com
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Smt. S.B Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Women character in Anti-sentimental Comedy

2. What is Comedy ?
 It is an art of performing our composing jokes, satire,
and humour.
 In literature comedy is performed by characters on
stage for entertainment.
 We can see many comic plays, movies, television,
shows, books etc.
 That is meant to make people laugh.
 Comedy word is related with literature.

3. Types of comedy
Romantic Comedy
 Comedy of Manners
 Comedy of humours
 Sentimental Comedy
 Tragic Comedy

4. What is Anti-sentimental comedy ?
Sentimental comedy
 When we discuss about the Anti-sentimental comedy, first we
clear the idea about what is sentimental comedy?
 This form becomes popular in 18th century Sentimental comedy
is related to our emotions. It appeals especially to our feeling
of sorrow, pity and compassionate sympathy.
 Richard steele was pioneer of sentimental comedy and the
best known sentimental comedy is ‘The conscious lover’. In
contrast ‘anti-sentimental comedy’ returns to comedy of
manners.

5.  An Anti-sentimental comedy is also called “comedy of
Manners”. When sentimental comedy did not last long, that
time anti-sentimental comedy was created by “Oliever
Goldsmith” and ‘Richard Sheridan” .
 It is an artificial comedy arose during 18th century. The
dramatist of this period wrote plays according to middle class
family and their interest
 It is kind of comedy representing complex and sophisticated
code of behaviours current in fashionable circle of society where
appearance count for more than true moral character.
 Oliver Goldsmith’s “she stoops to conquer” and Richard
Brinsley sheridan’s “The Rivals” & “School of Scandals” are the
Anti-sentimental comedy.
Anti-sentimental comedy

6. Characteristics of Anti-sentimental Comedy
Characteristic
of Anti-
sentimental
comedy
Wit
Farce
Laughter
Marriage
for love
and
money
Amusing
in trigues
Irony on
society

7. Women characters of “she stoops to conquer”

8. Mrs. Hardcastle- wife to Hardcastle and mother to Tony, Mrs
Hardcastle is a corrupt and eccentric characters.
-She is an over-protective mother to Tony, whom she loves, but
fails to tell him he’s of age sp that he is eligible to receive
1,500 a year .
-Her behaviour is also either over the top or far-fetched,
providing some of the play’s comedy.
-She is also partly selfish , wanting constance to marry her son
to keep the jewels in the family; she’s blissfully unaware
however, that they despite each other, and that constance is
in fact planning to flee to france hastings.
-Mrs. Hardcastle is a contrast to her husband, which provides the
humour in the play’s opening.
-she loves the town, and the only character who’s not happy at
the end of the play.
She stoops to conquer

9. Miss Kate Hardcastle
 Daughter to Mr. Hardcastle, and the play’s stooping to
conquer heroine.
 Kate respects her father, dressing plainly in his
presence to please him.
 The formal and respectful relationship that she shares
with her father, contrasts with that between Tony and
Mrs Hardcastle.
 Kate enjoys “french frippery” and the attributes of the
town, much as her mother does.
 She is both calculating and scheming, posing as a maid
and deceiving Marlow, causing him to fall in love with
her.

10. Miss constance Neville:-
 Niece of Mrs. Hardcastle, she is the women whom
Hasting intends to court.
 Constance despises her cousin Tony, she is their to a
large fortune of jewels, hence her aunt wants her to
remain in the family and marry Tony; she is secretly
an admirer of George Hastings however.
 Neville schemes with Hastings and Tony to get the
jewels so she can then flee to France with her
admirer; this is essentially one of the sub-plots of She
stoops to Conquer.

11. Lydia Languish
 Lydia Languish, Jack Absolute’s beloved, a girl whose head is
so stuffed with the fantastic adventures of popular fictional
people that she cannot bear to marry anyone in her own class.
 She spurns Jack Absolute when she
learns that he is not the penniless ensign .
Beverley, but she is greatly impressed when she
Learns that he is to fight a duel because of her,
and he wins her hand.
Rivals

12.  Mrs. Malaprop, Lydia’s aunt, whose eccentric
treatment of the English language spawned
the word “malapropism”.
 She opposes Lydia’s intention
to marry Jack, but she drops her
objections at last to bask in the
high spirits of those whose problems
have found happy solution.
Mrs. Malaprop

13. Maria:
-Desirable and wealthy young ward of Sir Peter Teazle. She is a
woman of principle who refuses to gossip.
Lady Teazle:
- Young wife of Sir Peter.
She and her husband have their little spats.
When he visits Joseph Surface one day,
He discovers his wife hiding behind a screen and at first thinks
she has been having an affair with Joseph, whom he now
brands as a villain.
School of Scandle

14. Lady sneerwell:
-Young widow of knight.
She is attracted to charles
Surface and plots with
Joseph Surface to break up charles and
Maria.