Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Standard Name: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Wealth and Poverty Caroline Norton
The burning down of Drury Lane Theatre on 24 February 1809 was a financial catastrophe for CN 's parents, as well as for her grandfather Richard Brinsley Sheridan .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Travel Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
The Duke of Devonshire planned to take his wife and his mistress to Spa in the summer of 1789. The prospect pleased them both for different reasons: Georgiana hoped for improved fertility from the waters...
Textual Production Frances Burney
After the triumph of Evelina, FB 's first intention was to write for the stage. She had the encouragement of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , manager of Drury Lane Theatre , and of dramatist Arthur Murphy .
Burney, Frances. The Complete Plays of Frances Burney. Editor Sabor, Peter, William Pickering.
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Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME wrote in a preface of her desire to find her way in this new career as playwright: a career she had been advised to by Richard Brinsley Sheridan .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 508
Textual Production Emma Marshall
EM also proposed to Seeley trying a shilling paper-cover book.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
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Her first of these became The Tower on the Cliff, A Story founded on a Gloucestershire Legend, 1886, which was warmly praised by...
Textual Production Ngaio Marsh
NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...
Textual Production Phebe Gibbes
A musical drama by PG was accepted for production, but then lost, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , new manager of Drury Lane Theatre .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC continued to write occasional verse, including a prologue for an amateur production of As You Like It which she cast in the form of a dialogue between herself (Mrs Cowden) and the...
Textual Production Catherine Gore
CG published a novel entitled The Dowager; or, The New School for Scandal (a subtitle referring to Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's well-known comedy).
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Hannah Cowley
She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...
Textual Production Hannah More
She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote an epilogue.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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It was published by...
Textual Production Hannah Cowley
It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular.
Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy.
It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris of Covent Garden , who then produced Hannah More 's Percy instead. Tragedy...
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
GH apparently rewrote the plot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's School for Scandal in her next Regency romance, April Lady.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head.
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Textual Production Mary Julia Young
The poem is dedicated by their sincere admirer, the author, to those, whose dramatic excellence suggested it.
Young, Mary Julia. Genius and Fancy; or, Dramatic Sketches. H. D. Symonds and J. Gray.
1792, prelims
MJY did not claim it with her name until its re-issue with other poems in 1795...
Textual Features Elizabeth Polwhele
The Frolicks is low London comedy—lively, realistic, and distinctly bawdy.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, pp. 13-49.
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Milhous distinguishes four plot-lines, all conventional: that of the imaginary cuckold (most famously used a century later by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The School...

Timeline

17 January 1775: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, The...

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17 January 1775

Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's first play, The Rivals, had its opening performance.

8 May 1777: The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley...

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8 May 1777

The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened at Drury Lane Theatre to unprecedented success. The following season it enjoyed 45 performances.

30 October 1779: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd by Richard...

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30 October 1779

The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened at Drury Lane Theatre .

16 December 1789: The Society for Constitutional Information...

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16 December 1789

The Society for Constitutional Information (a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.

Late 1790: William Holland published a print of Burke...

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Late 1790

William Holland published a print of Burke running the gauntlet of enemies with whips: women as well as men.

2 April 1796: Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered...

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2 April 1796

Vortigern and Rowena, allegedly a newly-discovered tragedy by Shakespeare but actually written by William Henry Ireland , opened under Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's management at Drury Lane .

24 May 1799: Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened...

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24 May 1799

Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened at Drury Lane . An adaptation of Kotzebue 's melodrama about Peru, Pizarro voiced the anti-French feelings (fore-runners of anti-Napoleonic feelings) disturbing the English people at this time.

24 February 1809: Drury Lane Theatre was demolished by fir...

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24 February 1809

Drury Lane Theatre was demolished by fire.

1825: Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life...

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1825

Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Texts

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, and Frances Sheridan. Sheridan’s Plays, now printed as he wrote them, and his mother’s unpublished comedy, A Journey to Bath. Editor Rae, W. Fraser, D. Nutt, 1902.