The Rivals By Richard Sheridan

When an attractive seventeen year old heiress arrives in Bath under the tutelage of her widowed aunt, it is inevitable that suitors for her hand in marriage abound.

There is a complication however. She would rather relinquish her fortune and elope with a penniless lover than go simpering up to the altar with a bishop’s licence and her aunt’s blessing.

Matters are further confused by a belligerent impoverished Irishman with designs on her fortune.