Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The School for Scandal is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper-class society in the late 1700s. Often referred to as a "comedy of manners", The School for Scandal is one of Sheridan's most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama.

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. Lydia Languish, a young woman from a good family, holds to an impossible romantic ideal of love, and resolves only to marry a pauper. So Jack Absolute pretends to be a poor soldier in order to win her hand. Meanwhile, Jack's father is attempting to procure the match through the proper channel of Lydia's guardian, and Jack becomes a rival to himself, before he is finally challenged to duels by rival suitors in both his identities... Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London, in 1775. This edition of the play, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is edited and introduced by Colin Counsell.

The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions and personal animosities. The Critic satirises the panic of the summer in the form of the comically misconceived tragedy 'The Spanish Armada' that is in rehearsal in the second and third acts, but The Critic ends with genuine patriotic feeling. This edition traces both the political and the theatrical objects of Sheridan's satire and discusses its reliance (and improvement) on earlier meta-theatrical burlesques like The Duke of Buckingham's Restoration romp The Rehearsal.

A scholarly edition of the letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

"Chill'd by rude gales, while yet reluctant MayWithholds the beauties of the vernal day;As some fond maid, whom matron frowns reprove, Suspends the smile her heart devotes to love;"-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, a Tragedy in Five Acts (1799)Pizarro, a Tragedy in Five Acts (1799) was adapted by Richard Brinsley Sheridan from the German tragedy Die Spanier in Peru by August von Kotzebue. Sheridan's adaptation was for the English stage as performed at the London Theatre Royal of Drury-Lane. The play focuses on Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro's invasion of Peru and the corruption, hardships, and intrigue surrounding his quest. Considered a culturally important work, this edition is being published as a replica of the original 1799 edition and is a must-read for lovers of history and theatre.