Richard Brinsley Sheridan : the impresario in political and cultural context / edited by Jack E. DeRochi and Daniel J. Ennis.

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TextSeries: Transits (Bucknell University)Publication details: Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781611484816
1611484812
9781611484816
9781299184435
129918443X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Richard Brinsley Sheridan.DDC classification:

822/.6 23

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PR3684

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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