Books : The Rivals and The School For Scandal - Two Comedies By Richard Brinsley Sheridan with Introductory Notes and Illustrations
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Label: The Heritage Press
Manufacturer: The Heritage Press
Printing Date: 1956
Publishing house: The Heritage Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1129663
Studio: The Heritage Press
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Richard Sheridan is primarily remembered for three brilliant plays: The Rivals, The School for Scandal, and The Critic. With these elegant comedies of manners, he almost single-handedly revived the comic spirit of the Restoration, deemed too coarse by the more refined society of the latter 18th century. In Sheridan's work, the clichés of traditional melodrama are turned on their heads (The Rivals, for example, features a man who forces his son to marry the woman he himself is in love with), and romantic intrigues become a forum for discussing political issues and the nature of theater itself. Sheridan's major plays were all written by the time he was 28. While melodramas, adaptations, and pantomimes followed, his career as a playwright was just a prelude to a long involvement in other fields, most notably managing London's Drury Lane theater and a political career that eventually led to a seat in the House of Commons. Little has been written about his later political and business life.
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