Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Brinsley Sheridan was part of the late eighteenth-century London male-dominated world of English clubs. A favourite in society, he was ‘clubbable’, to use the term coined by Samuel Johnson and he was also known for drinking heavily and … York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p.lvi. For Lord Byron , Sheridan was the epitome of the London socializer: ‘In society I have met Sheridan frequently: he was superb! […] I have met him in all places and parties—at Whitehall with the … boxes on either side’, 1778, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1837,0513.11., Ee,4.80. A satire on ostensibly polite society, The School for Scandal is considered one the greatest comedies of manners in the English tongue. It is populated …
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