Mrs Inchbald was not completely kind to the Rivals, especially when compared to the School for Scandal but as I have not read the second I cannot say and would not argue. She seems to have been offended by Mrs. Malaprop’s deficiencies and how that will reflect on her generation of women; that is the only point I have real issue, future generations shall naturally suppose the author drew men and women exactly as he found them. This is a comedy and I do not know why people would assume that or she thinks they would; maybe because of the association of the play with RBS’s life or perhaps she did not like a women of Mrs. Malaprop’s situation being a joke? I did not assume all women in the eighteenth century were like Mrs. Malaprop in her eloquence and I think even if I had not the benefit of RoP I still would not have done so; in either case Englishwomen of yesteryear would still have my general esteem and some my very particular affection. ;D