Search results: “"Richard Brinsley Sheridan"”

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  Pizarro

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s last play, an adaptation of August von Kotzebue’s Die Spanier in Peru first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular…

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  The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume A – Fourth Edition

  The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the concise edition…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama

  This is the first new full-scale anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in over sixty years. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it…

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  The Life of Mr Richard Savage

  The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. Richard Savage (1697—1743) was a poet,…

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  The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe

  The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe revolve around young women who wish the world would conform to novelistic convention. Unlike most eighteenth-century heroines keen on novel…