Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Garrick 's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the...

EBL gives a different interpretation to Mrs Ross's phrase the balance of comfort, balancing (here and in later novels) the single against the married life. The title-page quotes five prose maxims from one Harris...

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

MCC acted Mrs. Malaprop in three amateur performances of The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan at Westwood House in Sydenham, home of her friends the Littleton s.

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...

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...

HC 's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane under Garrick 's successor, Sheridan .

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...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan 's immense stage success, Pizarro.

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...