Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1) (1751–1816)
Auteur van The School for Scandal
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Over de Auteur
The son of Thomas Sheridan, the Irish actor and theater manager, Richard Brinsley Sheridan began writing plays as a youngster in Bath. He went on to become one of the most successful playwrights of the later eighteenth century, manager of the Drury Lane Theater, and also a politician and orator of toon meer some note in the House of Commons. Along with his friends David Garrick (seeVol. 3) and Oliver Goldsmith, Sheridan was a member of the Literary Club of Samuel Johnson, having been proposed for membership by Johnson himself. Like Goldsmith, Sheridan also attacks "The Sentimental Muse" of weeping comedy. In his best-known play, The School for Scandal (1777), Sheridan revives the Restoration comedy of manners with its portrait of the beau monde and its deflation of hypocrisy. The play is indebted to William Congreve as well as to Moliere (see Vol. 2), and the picture of society is based on Bath and London. In The Rivals (1775), Sheridan amuses himself with the language games of Mrs. Malaprop and her "nice derangement of epitaphs." The allusions are consistently literary, as in her simile "as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile." Sheridan's acute ear for banalities and truisms is best seen in The Critic (1779), a burlesque of sentimental and inflated plays as well as self-important criticism. The play ridicules "false Taste and brilliant Follies of modern dramatic Composition." Sheridan's sparking dialogue, lively scenes, and masterful dramatic construction have proved to be enduringly popular. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: From Wikimedia Commons. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by sir Joshua Reynolds.
Werken van Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Four Great Comedies of the Restoration and 18th Century: The Country Wife/School for Scandal/She Stoops to Conquer/Way… (1958) — Medewerker — 116 exemplaren
Pizarro : a tragedy, in five acts : as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane (2004) 10 exemplaren
The Major Dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 4 exemplaren
Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan 4 exemplaren
Delphi Complete Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 13) (2017) 4 exemplaren
An ode to scandal together with A portrait 3 exemplaren
Verses to the memory of Garrick : spoken as a monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane 2 exemplaren
The letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 2 exemplaren
Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1 exemplaar
Dramatic Works of Sheridan and Goldsmith. With Goldsmith's poems (Miniature Library of the Poets) 1 exemplaar
The Dramatic Works of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Collection of British Authors Vol. 997) (1869) 1 exemplaar
Poems and Speeches (in Complete Works) 1 exemplaar
S&S Little Classics 1 exemplaar
The Humorous Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1 exemplaar
The Works of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, With a Memoir by James P. Brown, M.D., Containing Extracts… (1873) 1 exemplaar
Sheridan's Plays Now Printed As He Wrote Them: And His Mother's Unpublished Comedy, a Journey to Bath (2012) 1 exemplaar
The Rivals (performance of Jan. 1999) 1 exemplaar
Sheridan's Humorous Plays 1 exemplaar
Poems 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal (1606) — Medewerker — 364 exemplaren
Modern English Drama: Dryden; Sheridan; Goldsmith; Shelley; Browning; Byron (1909) — Medewerker — 234 exemplaren
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Medewerker — 96 exemplaren
Three English Comedies: She Stoops to Conquer; The Rivals; The School for Scandal (1955) — Medewerker — 52 exemplaren
English Verse: Volume 3: The Eighteenth Century: Swift to Crabbe (Penguin Classics) (1995) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler
- Geboortedatum
- 1751-10-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1816-07-07
- Graflocatie
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
- Geboorteplaats
- Dublin, Ireland
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Dublin, Ireland
London, England, UK
Bath, Somerset, England, UK - Opleiding
- Harrow School
- Beroepen
- playwright
Manager, Drury Lane Theater
Member of Parliament (Whig)
politician
orator - Relaties
- Sheridan, Frances (mother)
Blackwood, Helen Selina Sheridan (granddaughter)
Norton, Caroline (granddaughter)
Lefanu, Alicia Sheridan (sister)
Sheridan, Betsy (sister)
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (great-nephew) (toon alle 11)
Dufferin, Lord (great-grandson)
Broughton, Rhoda (great-great-niece)
Blackwood, Caroline (descendant)
Sheridan, Caroline Henrietta (daughter-in-law)
Sheridan, Thomas (father) - Organisaties
- Garrick Club, London, England, UK
Literary Club, London, England, UK
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London - Korte biografie
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan is still popular today for his satirical, witty comedies of manners such as The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777). He also served as a Member of Parliament for 32 years. He was part of an acting and literary dynasty: His mother Frances Sheridan, née Chamberlaine, was a playwright and novelist, and his father Thomas Sheridan was an actor-manager who went on to write several books on education. Many of his descendants, his two sisters, and some of their descendants also became writers.
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