This collection reinvigorates Sheridan studies by presenting his spectacular life and extraordinary works in the intricate political, social, and cultural context of Georgian London. The author of The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, and the The Critic was also an innovative theatrical manager, a flashy profligate, and the mainstay of political opposition in the decisive decades of the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jack E. DeRochi and Daniel J. Ennis
One: The Many Lives of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Jack E. DeRochi
Two: Sheridan's Early Style
Robert Jones
Three: The Literary Origins of Sir Lucius O'Trigger
David Haley
Four: Reflections upon Maintaining a Competitive Edge: The Duenna and her Peers at Drury Lane
Mita Choudhury
Five: Schools Beyond Scandal, 1776-1800
Emily Friedman
Six: The Rule of Scandal: Sheridan in the Age of Wilde and Shaw
John Vance
Seven: Naumachia and the Structure of The Critic
Daniel J. Ennis
Eight: The Lees and Sheridan: An Unexamined Connection
Steven Gores
Nine: Sheridan's Courtroom Dramas: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings and the Trial of the Bounty Mutineers
Glynis Ridley
Ten: Pizarro's Spectacular Dialectics: Sheridan's Bridge to the Cosmopolitical Future
Daniel O'Quinn
Eleven: Sheridan and Women
Marianna D'Ezio
Twelve: Caricaturing Sheridan
David Francis Taylor
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
