Overview
Character Name
Sir Benjamin Backbite
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
England, Eighteenth Century
Analysis
Sir Benjamin Backbite is a young, ambitious upper class gentleman and the nephew of Mr. Crabtree. Like Joseph Surface, he too wants to marry Maria in order to get his hands on her fortune. Sir Benjamin loves gossip and scandal, and uses his limited poetical skills to
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