The Twin Rivals

Twin Rivals, The (1702), a play by George Farquhar first produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London. Hermes Wouldbe, the elder brother, is going to be swindled out of the family estate and the hand of his fiancée, Constance, by the younger, Benjamin, with the help of an attorney, Subtleman, who offers to bring a cargo-load of perjuring witnesses from Ireland. The stage-Irish servant Teague exposes the villains.