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The Rivals, brimming with false identities and with romantic entanglements carried on amid a cloud of parental disapproval, satirizes the pretentiousness and sentimentality of the age. It features a cast of memorable characters, among them the lovely Lydia Languish, whose pretty head has been filled with nonsense from romantic novels, Capt. Jack Absolute, a young officer in love with Lydia, Sir Anthony Absolute, Jack's autocratic father, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, a fiery Irishman, and Jack's provincial neighbor, Bob Acres, a bumptious but lovable country squire in love with Lydia.