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1. The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Dramas, Poems, Translations, Speeches, Unfinished Sketches, and Ana by Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) Sheridan | |
Hardcover:
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(1913)
Asin: B000PKDVXI Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
2. The rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; with an introduction by Brander Matthews and illustrations by M. Power OÂMalley by Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). Illustrations by M. Power OÂMalley Sheridan | |
Hardcover:
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(1907)
Asin: B000OFI21U Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
3. The rivals and The school for scandal. Two comedies by Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) Sheridan | |
Hardcover:
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(1990)
Asin: B000WAWVDM Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
4. VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF GARRICK. Spoken as a Monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. by Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) Sheridan | |
Hardcover:
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(1779)
Asin: B000OPAT52 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. St. Patrick's day, or, the scheming lieutenant : a farce in one act by Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 Sheridan | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-10-01)
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6. A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 by Fintan O'Toole | |
Hardcover: 519
Pages
(1998-11-30)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com There are romantic intrigues, political battles, and dodges from the debt collectors aplenty in Sheridan's later life, though they seem but a lengthy epilogue to the wit and creativity of his early years. O'Toole is wonderfully lucid, however, in explaining the struggles for Irish autonomy in this period (Sheridan would all his life, to the detriment of his social standing, identify himself as Irish), and he offers an in-depth analysis of the elaborate political and social arena of the time. Particularly well drawn are Sheridan's complex romantic relationships with his wives, involving infidelities and duels. But when compared to the brilliance of his early plays, the historical details of his later life seem somewhat lackluster. --John Longenbaugh Customer Reviews (4)
A wit, poet and a gentleman.
What an excellent book!
a terrific book The book covers all of this, but what elevates this bio fromthe typical is the author's focus on Sheridan's rhetoric--his use oflanguage. The richness of wordplay, situation, and satire in his playsturns out to be just a special case of a characteristic lifestyle ofthought and interaction. It's just splendid to read this sort of thing froman intelligent writer. The book gets you thinking, and there are points atwhich you may challenge the author's conclusions, but you're not going tofind many biographies of this depth, thoroughness, and thoughtfulness. Agreat read!
a really good biography that could have been much better Widely praised in the English and American press, this biography portrays Sheridan as a passionate (and compassionate) politician. He was a major player in a struggle for various complicated and sometimes seemingly contradictory causes and parliamentary power in the era of the American Revolution, King George III's intermittent madness, the French Revolution, and troubles in the British empire. Sheridan is shown to be a humanitarian, and, less convincingly, an Irish patriot in the guise of an English politician who happened to be Irish by birth at a time when Ireland was at times openly rebellious toward England. The family heritage in Ireland was actually Protestant, but tolerant of Catholicism to the point of having Jacobite tendencies, i.e. favoring the return of the Stuart monarchy that had ended with James II in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688. Sheridan's father, Thomas, was a man of the theatre, and also a scholar, concerned particularly with propriety in matters of language and spoken discourse. Richard was not his father's favorite and his mother, herself a writer, died while Richard was still a young boy. O'Toole's biography manages to relate the playwright's works to his family circumstances without indulging in psychological speculation. For example, the memorable character Mrs. Malaprop, in The Rivals, (immortalized by our word "malaprop" or "malapropism") is shown to be in part based on Thomas, who had pedantic tendencies. (Malaprops are best when they come from pretenders to perfection in language. An especially good one appeared a few years ago in The Smithsonian magazine when James J. Kilpatrick, a conservative political commentator and sometimes word policeman, referred to a mistake in diction as a "solipsism" instead of a "solecism".) The many portrayals of hypocrisy and venality in Sheridan's plays are well explained by reference to the politics and society of the period, but are timeless in their effectiveness. The book is most interesting in describing the realities of theatrical performances, whether the particulars are staging details, audience characteristics, or financial exigencies. But this is a political biography of a character whose political accomplishments and enlightened ideals outshine his well known literary works. Many of Sheridan's Irish contacts and English partisans in the intrigues within England in the years after 1789 were openly sympathetic to, or even allied with the French revolutionaries. Yet Sheridan was during this time a prominent member of the House of Commons and close to the Prince of Wales, later George IV. Some of his personal and political friends were tried as traitors during the peak of Sheridan's political prominence; he survived primarily because of his political acumen, eloquence, and insight. To the general reader, not well acquainted with the intricacies of English history, the work will nevertheless be interesting and convincing in portraying Sheridan as a politically adroit and ingenious man, even an Enlightenment figure. Sheridan's speeches and writings were well known to the American revolutionaries, and remained popular even after his death. He eloquently advocated religious toleration, freedom from colonial oppression, even feminism, and opposed slavery so effectively as to influence the young Frederick Douglass. Sheridan's personal flaws (he was a drunk and an adulterer), theatre life in London, political intrigues, the struggle for religious and political freedom in Ireland, and the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings for mismanagement of affairs in British colonial India, all well explained, make this book accessible and interesting. I offer three points of criticism. First, and most importantly, characters, terms, or events not known to the general reader or history reader, should be explained briefly. The English reader may know what a "rotten" borough was, and what a "pocket" borough was, in the days before parliamentary reform, but a sentence or two would explain this and give the reader a better understanding of the electoral politics involved. Second, an attempt at a definitive biography, published by a prestigious house such as Farar, should include illustrations. It is frustrating to read descriptions of presumably extant political cartoons of the day, some involving Sheridan's Drury Lane theatre, or major political figures, and not be able to see reproductions-surely the private collection or library would give permission. (In fact, the New York Review of Books included one cartoon in its review of this book.) Finally, O'Toole's prose is afflicted with some of the unfortunate mannerisms of academic style. He repeatedly uses the awkward, almost always disruptive "former...latter" construction, and equally often uses the term "context" when referring to real relationships or circumstances-the term should be reserved for relationships between words. These usages may be epidemic in doctoral dissertations or in the "scholarly" journals no one reads, but that does not excuse their appearance in a work like this-the author is the drama critic of the New York Daily News. In the age of word processing, surely an editor at Farar should have caught these irritating errors of style, possibly in preparation of the American edition. Then again, a careful editor might have noticed that at the end of the "Preface to the American Edition" the date is incorrectly listed as May 1988. If this clever and talented author had made his entertaining book more accessible, he would be open to the charge of "popularizing", anathema in academic and some literary circles. But it is a measure of his success in eliciting the nature of Sheridan that one wishes he had done so. After all, the political and religious difficulties in Ireland persist, and one could as well look beyond the Emerald Isle and argue that we too live in an age of comparably flawed, but ultimately noble political actors and causes, in need of better understanding of their human qualities. ... Read more |
7. Scarborough and the Critic by Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 Sheridan | |
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(2004-12-01)
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8. A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 by Fintan; Farrar Straus & Girouxt Otoole | |
Paperback:
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(1998)
Asin: B000OXCK6U Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
9. The school for scandal, a comedy, by R.B. Sheridan; with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and hand-coloured etchings by Rene Ben Sussan by Richard Brinsley, (1751-1816) Sheridan | |
Hardcover:
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(1934)
Asin: B000H495EG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
10. The plays of Richard Brinsley Butler, 1751-1816 by Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1908)
Asin: B0008CFF4G Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. Plays and Poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Sheridan Rb | |
Textbook Binding:
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(1962-01)
list price: US$55.00 Isbn: 0846202735 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley SheridanVolume 01 by Thomas, 1779-1852 Moore | |
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(2004-10-01)
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13. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley SheridanVolume 02 by Thomas, 1779-1852 Moore | |
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(2005-03-01)
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14. The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(1998-11-19)
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15. The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by James Morwodd | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(1985-12)
list price: US$40.00 Isbn: 0707304288 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (World Dramatists) by Marlies K. Danziger | |
Hardcover: 184
Pages
(1978-05)
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17. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. V1: by Thomas Moore | |
Hardcover:
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(1969-04-30)
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18. Sheridan Studies | |
Paperback: 218
Pages
(2006-12-14)
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19. Sheridan, 1751-1816 by William Aubrey Darlington | |
Unknown Binding: 29
Pages
(1951)
Asin: B0006D6K6O Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William-Alan Landes | |
Paperback: 84
Pages
(1995-10)
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Graduate Studies in Gossip and Family Intrigue
Easy to Read - Great Comedy More Than Two Centuries Later Unlike the literature and poetry of the preceding centuries, footnotes are not needed for this late eighteenth century play. I read the entire play in a single session, and clearly this is a comedy to be relished, one whose enjoyment comes as naturally today as when it was first staged at Drury Lane theater in London in 1777. Why does Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play still resonate with today's audience?Sheridan offers a deliciously humorous look at that fascinating and seemingly unchanging human characteristic, the propensity to gossip, to tell tales about others with only limited concern for the truth. Like Mrs. Candour, we all claim to abhor gossip, and would not ourselves consider creating fictitious tales, but are we immune from conveying stories about others, even stories which are suspect? Lady Sneerwell rationalizes: Wounded myself in the early part of my life by the envenomed tongue of slander, I have since known no pleasure equal to the reducing others to the level of my own injured reputation. Mr. Snake, another memorable villain, explains: I beg your ladyship ten thousand pardons: you paid me extremely liberally for the lie in question, but I unfortunately have been offered double to speak the truth. The School for Scandal is a classic example of an English comedy of manners. The dialogue is witty and entertaining. The plot is elaborate and contrived, but always maintains interest and momentum as Sheridan brings his intertwined subplots to an entertaining and satisfactory conclusion. Along the way we encounter devious plots and counterplots, disguised identities, and outrageous behavior. It is great fun.
Good satire of gabby society The school's "principals" are Lady Sneerwell and a man named Snake, who like to collect gossip about their neighbors and others in London society; one of their cohorts is the brilliantly ironic character Mrs. Candour, who openly reprehends idle gossip but blithely participates in it anyway.One of their favorite subjects of gossip is the Surface brothers, Joseph and Charles.The popular perception is that Joseph is responsible and respectable, while Charles is a wastrel and a miscreant. The Surface brothers' uncle, Sir Oliver Surface, returns to London after spending many years in India, hears the rumors about his nephews, and decides to verify them for the purpose of choosing an heir between the two.Since he has been gone so long that his nephews would not recognize him, he visits them incognito.Posing as a moneylender to Charles, and as a poor relative to Joseph, he discovers that his nephews are not quite of the natures he has been led to believe. Sheridan employs some typical comedic devices like love triangles and hiding characters, but for the most part this is an inventive play that picks its targets well and hits the bullseye every time.Considering it was written at such a turbulent time in England's history, it's interesting that social satire still managed to break through greater national concerns and be successful and appreciated.
Delightfully Scandalous
Comedy of Manners The Dover Thrift edition has no introduction or analysis. Intoduction and analysis are of course not necessary, but in some situations they are nice things to have. ... Read more |
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