Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… or a crack in the wig club’, 1793, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6282. Image ‘Scene from “School for Scandal” being performed in Drury Lane Theatre, London; four actors on stage, the audience watching from boxes on either … owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals (1775 ), The School for Scandal (1777), The Critic (1779) or Pizarro (1799). He moved from the stage to the political arena and was a Whig MP … the fashionable Whig fraternity' on November 2, 1780, see Michael Cordner, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal and Other Plays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p.lvi. For Lord Byron, Sheridan was the epitome of the …
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