Biography EssayRichard Brinsley Sheridan wrote and produced three plays that have been performed more frequently than the works of any other playwright between William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. T...
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The British playwright and orator Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) wrote two comic masterpieces for the stage, The Rivals and The School for Scandal. In his own time, Sheridan was equally celebra...
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan wrote and produced three plays that have been performed more frequently than the works of any other playwright between Shakespeare and Shaw. The Rivals, The School for Scanda...
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In the following excerpt, Durant surveys Sheridan's work as a poet.
Whether penning a sweet love lyric to Eliza, or dashing off a song for performance at the theater, or acknowledging some s...
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In the following essay, Durant discusses Sheridan's juxtaposition of the comic and the terrifying in his dramas.
From the beginning of his career as a writer, Richard Brinsley Sheridan demon...
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In the following essay, Hogan views the plotting and characterization of Sheridan's dramas as in some ways lacking, but acknowledges the brilliance of his comic language in The Rivals, The Scho...
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In the following essay, Wiesenthal studies Sheridan's concern with modes of artistic representation in The Critic, The School for Scandal, and The Rivals.
In his 1825 biography of Richard Br...
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In the following essay, Clayton recounts Sheridan's actions and reputation as a Whig politician and a member of Parliament.
When Thomas Moore was preparing his biography of Sheridan he was t...
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In the following essay, Carlson analyzes the dynamics of language, colonial oppression, and filial responsibility in Sheridan's adapted play Pizarro.
The most popular play of the 1790s in Lo...
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Critical Essay by Jack D. Durant
