Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)

Frances Sheridan (1724–66) won acclaim in her day as both a playwright and novelist. Her most famous work, the sentimental novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761), found favour...

This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural stu...

Best known for The Rivals and The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) was already a celebrated comic playwright when he entered Parliament in 1780. Turning hi...

Best known for The Rivals and The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) was already a celebrated comic playwright when he entered Parliament in 1780. Turning hi...

The Scots novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828–97) published this biography of the playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) in the first 'English Men of Letters' serie...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, a noted dramatist and politician, was regarded by friends and foes as the preeminent parliamentary orator of the period, championing causes such as polit...

Hoping to capitalize on the success of Grant’s memoir, Mark Twain approached Philip H. Sheridan to ask him to write his memoir as well. But by 1888, the Civil War memory market was...

AbstractShortly after Sheridan's death in 1816, Thomas Moore (without previous experience in the field) agreed to write his biography. This was no small undertaking, as Sheridan ha...