The Rivals

Eighteenth-century Bath. A young officer pretends to be penniless to win a romantic's heart, an aunt mangles the language, and everyone ends in the wrong drawing room.

• Mrs. Malaprop and the Captain

  Mrs. Malaprop presents herself at her verbal best — which is to say, her most hilariously wrong. Captain Absolute, with an ulterior motive, plays along.
  Act 3, Scene 3

  MRS. MALAPROP + CAPTAIN ABSOLUTE