Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… 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 side’, 1778, © The Trustees of the … London, England) was an Irish-born British playwright, poet, politician, 'clubbable' orator and 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 … Monody on the Death of the Right Honorable R. B. Sheridan, written at the request of a friend to be spoken at Drury Lane Theatre (London: John Murray, Albemarble Street, 1816). …
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