Author: William Fraser RaePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's progenitors
Author: William Fraser RaeThe Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Letters 200-631
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Introduction
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Catalogue of Autograph Letters and other documents, English and foreign ... on sale ... by J. G. Bell, etc
Author: John Gray BELLMemoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Thomas MoorePublisher:
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Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Linda KellyPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571287158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The first night of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, on 8 May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched into eighteenth-century society, as much at home in the salons of the Duchess of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales as in the taverns and coffee-houses around Drury Lane. Sheridan's comedies were all written by the time he was twenty-eight. For the next thirty years he was wholly involved in his twin careers as manager of the Drury Lane theatre and Member of Parliament. At a time when politics were dominated by a few aristocratic families, he rose above his poverty to become one of the greatest parliamentary figures of the age. In the theatre, he presided over one of the most brilliant periods in the history of the English stage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Kelly gives a comprehensive picture of Sheridan's tempestuous career and chaotic private life. For all his faults, his charm was irresistible - 'there has been nothing like it since the days of Orpheus,' wrote Byron. It is charm that illuminates her narrative, bringing Sheridan to life. 'I can imagine no better biography of this talented, dynamic, impossibly unreliable firework of a man.' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Letters 632-937
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Thomas MoorePublisher: Publio Kiadó Kft.
ISBN: 9633819393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Richard Brinsley [Footnote: He was christened also by the name of Butler, after the Earl of Lanesborough.] Sheridan was born in the month of September, 1751, at No. 12, Dorset Street, Dublin, and baptized in St. Mary's Church, as appears by the register of the parish, on the fourth of the following month. His grandfather, Dr. Sheridan, and his father, Mr. Thomas Sheridan, have attained a celebrity, independent of that which he has conferred on them, by the friendship and correspondence with which the former was honored by Swift, and the competition and even rivalry which the latter so long maintained with Garrick. His mother, too, was a woman of considerable talents, and affords one of the few instances that have occurred, of a female indebted for a husband to her literature; as it was a pamphlet she wrote concerning the Dublin theatre that first attracted to her the notice of Mr. Thomas Sheridan. Her affecting novel, Sidney Biddulph, could boast among its warm panegyrists Mr. Fox and Lord North; and in the Tale of Nourjahad she has employed the graces of Eastern fiction to inculcate a grave and important moral,—putting on a fairy disguise, like her own Mandane, to deceive her readers into a taste for happiness and virtue.