The Antioch Review, January 1st, 2000
A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-l8l6 by Fintan O'Toole. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 519 pp., $30.00. Buried in Poet's Corner and remembered today mainly for his witty plays, it was as a political figure that Sheridan struggled through the period of the American and French Revolutions to bring about radical changes in England, and especially in Ireland, within the existing system. The plays themselves, with all their political implications, may have been but a stepping stone to their author's true career. O'Toole points out that he refused offers of economic security...
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