Presents the script for Richard Brinsley Sheridan's eighteenth-century play about Jack Absolute, a well-to-do young man who adopts the guise of a poor soldier in order to win the love of Lydia Languish, a girl who is smitten with the notion of a life of romantic poverty.
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