TY - BOOK AU - DeRochi,Jack E. AU - Ennis,Daniel James TI - Richard Brinsley Sheridan: the impresario in political and cultural context T2 - Transits : literature, thought & culture SN - 9781611484816 AV - PR3684 U1 - 822/.6 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Lanham, MD PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, KW - Politics and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Politique et littérature KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - 18e siècle KW - DRAMA KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Manners and customs KW - fast KW - London (England) KW - Social life and customs KW - Londres (Angleterre) KW - Mœurs et coutumes KW - London KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The many lives of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Jack E. DeRochi --; Sheridan's early style; Robert W. Jones --; The literary origins of Sir Lucius O'Trigger; David Haley --; Reflections upon maintaining a competitive edge: The duenna and her peers at Drury Lane; Mita Choudhury --; Schools beyond Scandal, 1776-1800; Emily C. Friedman --; The rule of Scandal: Sheridan in the age of Wilde and Shaw; John Vance --; Naumachia and the structure of The critic; Daniel J. Ennis --; The Lees and the Sheridans: an unexamined connection; Steven Gores --; Sheridan's courtroom dramas: the impeachment of Warren Hastings and the trial of the Bounty mutineers; Glynis Ridley --; Pizarro's spectacular dialectics: Sheridan's bridge to the cosmopolitical future; Daniel O'Quinn --; Sheridan and women; Marianna D'Ezio --; Caricaturing Sheridan; David Francis Taylor N2 - This collection reinvigorates Sheridan studies by presenting his spectacular life and extraordinary works in the intricate political, social, and cultural context of Georgian London. The author of The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, and the The Critic was also an innovative theatrical manager, a flashy profligate, and the mainstay of political oppo UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=538452 ER -