Sheridan wrote it at age 23.
This is the play which features the famous Mrs. Malaprop, the woman who has a large vocabulary but whose tongue often produces the wrong word at the critical moment. One of her funniest lines of the night was:
He is the very pineapple of politeness!"Pinnacle" was what she meant to say,
but somehow her intention went astray.
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