Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… the Right Honorable R. B. Sheridan , Byron portrayed him as a bard and man of wit and social eloquence whose likeness in societies will never be found again. ‘Ye Bards! To whom The Drama’s muse is dear, He was your Master – emulate him here ! … he was ‘the pineapple of politeness’ and sociability. His wit and ‘clubbability’ intermingled theatrical and political societies and cultures in London during the eighteenth century and made him the ‘resistless wit whose pointed dart … Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019). Clark, Peter, British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). DeRochi, Jack E. and …
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