Richard Brinsley Sheridan :the impresario in political and cultural context

• 其他作者: DeRochi, Jack E. , Ennis, Daniel James,
• 出版: Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press 2013.
• 稽核項: xi, 307 pages :illustrations ;24 cm.
• 叢書名: Transits : literature, thought & culture
• 標題: Social life and customs , Criticism and interpretation. , Politics and literature , London (England) , Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, , London (England) Social life and customs -- 18th century. , Politics and literature England -- History -- 18th century. , Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 Criticism and interpretation. , History
• ISBN: 1611484812 , 9781611484816
• 附註: 105年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫主題:文學I:戲曲與表演文化 Includes bibliographical references and index. The many lives of Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Jack E. DeRochi -- Sheridan's early style / Robert W. Jones -- The literary origins of Sir Lucius O'Trigger / David Haley -- Reflections upon maintaining a competitive edge: The duenna and her peers at Drury Lane / Mita Choudhury -- Schools beyond Scandal, 1776-1800 / Emily C. Friedman -- The rule of Scandal: Sheridan in the age of Wilde and Shaw / John Vance -- Naumachia and the structure of The critic / Daniel J. Ennis -- The Lees and the Sheridans: an unexamined connection / Steven Gores -- Sheridan's courtroom dramas: the impeachment of Warren Hastings and the trial of the Bounty mutineers / Glynis Ridley -- Pizarro's spectacular dialectics: Sheridan's bridge to the cosmopolitical future / Daniel O'Quinn -- Sheridan and women / Marianna D'Ezio -- Caricaturing Sheridan / David Francis Taylor.
• 摘要: "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 studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan's works--not just plays but also poetry and orations--that endure. These essays reclaim the legacy of the man of letters and partisan bon vivant who burst from obscurity to become a powerful cultural force in Georgian London. This collection covers the many lives of Sheridan, taking into account both his variegated career and the competing accounts of the man, as well as his early verse, which lays the foundation for his success as a playwright. Chapters are devoted to Sheridan's theatre, and provide innovative readings of his most famous dramatic pieces: The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, The Critic, and Pizarro. The volume also includes extensive discussion of the dramatic highs of Sheridan's long political career, thus placing the playwright-politician firmly in the world in which performance and politics were inextricably entwined."--Publisher's website.
• 系統號: 005267125
• 資料類型: 圖書
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