Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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.

This essay includes elements of fiction and reportage. It both exemplifies and defends the colourful and linguistically distinct qualities of Irish lower-class speech, pointing out that for these speakers English is their second language. (This...

This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane

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 .

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

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...

It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris of Covent Garden , who then produced Hannah More 's Percy instead. Tragedy...

The title, flagging a gender-role reversal from George Farquhar 's Beaux' Stratagem, 1707, suggests a return to the wit and worldliness of Restoration comedy. The sub-plot in which Sir George Touchwood tries to keep...

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.

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...

Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...

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 .

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...

The Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu was RB 's uncle by marriage. Himself a grandson of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and great-grandson of Frances Sheridan , he had married Broughton's mother's sister (who was born Susanna Bennett

FB 's friendship with Woffington led to her meeting Peg's sister Polly , who became her lifelong friend. Eight years older than Brooke, Polly Woffington was a close friend of Samuel Johnson , Sir Joshua Reynolds