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Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The subtitle of this novel (which in earlier centuries had been the title of a bawdy song) here alludes to a proverb about the impossible perfections of maids' husbands and bachelors' children. This first novel... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | The reanimation of FB
's comedies is a happy story. Tara Ghoshal Wallace
edited A Busy Day in paperback in 1984. A fringe production performed in Bristol in 1993, then in Islington, London, in... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Griffith | This play succeeded on stage in the teeth of a cabal against it. The Critical Review gave a somewhat mixed message, saying the play would have been thought excellent if only that wicked wit, Sheridan |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's Sheridan for the English Men of Letters series, 1883, was universally decried. The charges against it included inaccuracy and excess of moral blame for the man as opposed to the writer. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. 2: 1192 |
Literary Setting | Charlotte Maria Tucker | This, one of her most lively and engaging children's books, features a main character named Ratto, who wanders through the world from London to Russia, eventually joining up with a rat-hero named Whiskerandos. This... |
Occupation | David Garrick | Drury Lane Theatre
was left in parlous condition at the retirement of David Garrick
; the next manager to make his mark on it was Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, who now became joint-manager with three others. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 5-6 |
Occupation | Mary Robinson | Soon after her husband's release, MR
was introduced to the theatre manager Sheridan
, to whom she recited passages of Shakespeare as a sample of what she could do. Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen. 86 |
Occupation | Mary Cowden Clarke | |
Occupation | Thomas Moore | TM
later established himself as a biographer with a string of books: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825), an edition of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830), and... |
Occupation | Naomi Jacob | One stage part she hated playing was one of those foul-mouthed and golden-hearted old women, who drink, swear, steal, and in fact do everything but murder, and yet retain hearts as pure as the driven... |
Performance of text | Eliza Parsons | It shared the bill (which was given for the benefit of actress Isabella Mattocks
) with Elizabeth Inchbald
's The Child of Nature (adapted from Genlis
) and The Soldier's Festival; or, The Night before... |
Performance of text | Anne Plumptre | AP
was paid £25 for the use by Sheridan
and the Drury Lane Theatre
of her translation of Kotzebue
's Die Spanier in Peru. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 2178 |
Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane
under Garrick
's successor, Sheridan
. It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 246 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Elizabeth (Berkeley), Lady Craven
(later Margravine of Anspach), defied social convention by having her comedy The Miniature Picture (Larpent MS 525) acted at Drury Lane
, with a prologue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, and... |
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