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Plays of Richard Sheridan
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Plays of Richard Sheridan
Examines "A School for Scandal" & "The Critic" in context of late 18th/early 19th Cent. British culture & Restoration comedy.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages) |
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1999
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"Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was a late eighteenth-century British playwright of some renown, noted for helping to revive the English comedy of manners during the Restoration. This type of play depicts the amorous intrigues of people in the wealthier segment of society, and the best-known of Sheridan's plays analyze this territory with sharp wit and complex plots. He followed in the footsteps of William Congreve and William Wycherley and satirized his society in highly-polished plays like School for Scandal and The Critic.The eighteenth century began as a period of relative calm after the ferment and political turmoil of the previous century, and this was marked by the Restoration, the return to a previous order. The political order of the previous century was embodied in Thomas Hobbes' work Leviathan, which could be seen as a.."
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