Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1) (1751–1816)
Autor(a) de The School for Scandal
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About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: From Wikimedia Commons. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by sir Joshua Reynolds.
Obras por Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Four Great Comedies of the Restoration and 18th Century: The Country Wife/School for Scandal/She Stoops to Conquer/Way… (1958) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Pizarro : a tragedy, in five acts : as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane (2004) 10 exemplares
The Major Dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 4 exemplares
Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan 4 exemplares
Delphi Complete Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 13) (2017) 4 exemplares
An ode to scandal together with A portrait 3 exemplares
Verses to the memory of Garrick : spoken as a monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane 2 exemplares
The letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 2 exemplares
Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1 exemplar
Dramatic Works of Sheridan and Goldsmith. With Goldsmith's poems (Miniature Library of the Poets) 1 exemplar
The Dramatic Works of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Collection of British Authors Vol. 997) (1869) 1 exemplar
Poems and Speeches (in Complete Works) 1 exemplar
S&S Little Classics 1 exemplar
The Works of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, With a Memoir by James P. Brown, M.D., Containing Extracts… (1873) 1 exemplar
Sheridan's Plays Now Printed As He Wrote Them: And His Mother's Unpublished Comedy, a Journey to Bath (2012) 1 exemplar
The Rivals (performance of Jan. 1999) 1 exemplar
Sheridan's Humorous Plays 1 exemplar
Poems 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal (1606) — Contribuidor — 367 exemplares
Modern English Drama: Dryden; Sheridan; Goldsmith; Shelley; Browning; Byron (1909) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1933) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Three English Comedies: She Stoops to Conquer; The Rivals; The School for Scandal (1955) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
English Verse: Volume 3: The Eighteenth Century: Swift to Crabbe (Penguin Classics) (1995) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler
- Data de nascimento
- 1751-10-30
- Data de falecimento
- 1816-07-07
- Localização do túmulo
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
- Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Dublin, Ireland
London, England, UK
Bath, Somerset, England, UK - Educação
- Harrow School
- Ocupações
- playwright
Manager, Drury Lane Theater
Member of Parliament (Whig)
politician
orator - Relações
- Sheridan, Frances (mother)
Blackwood, Helen Selina Sheridan (granddaughter)
Norton, Caroline (granddaughter)
Lefanu, Alicia Sheridan (sister)
Sheridan, Betsy (sister)
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (great-nephew) (mostrar todos 11)
Dufferin, Lord (great-grandson)
Broughton, Rhoda (great-great-niece)
Blackwood, Caroline (descendant)
Sheridan, Caroline Henrietta (daughter-in-law)
Sheridan, Thomas (father) - Organizações
- Garrick Club, London, England, UK
Literary Club, London, England, UK
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 61
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 3,092
- Popularidade
- #8,256
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 37
- ISBN
- 190
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 2