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Performance of text | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, was a composer of tunes for the voice: she contributed a song to Sheridan
's immense stage success, Pizarro. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 323 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox
's Euphemia. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 204 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | The title of this last book, adapting from the drinking song about girls sung by Charles Surface in Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's The School for Scandal, suggests the attitude taken to the high-living behaviour... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan
, Byron
, and especially Scott |
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