Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Videos
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westm
Portrait by John Hoppner, c. 1788–1792
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by John Hoppner
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, aged 31, by Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art)
In Uncorking Old Sherry (1805), James Gillray caricatured Sheridan as a bottle of sherry, uncorked by Pitt and bursting out with puns, invective, and fibs.
The Rivals
Videos
The Rivals is a five-act comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. first performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, on 17 January 1775. It was his first play.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
…constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777). He served as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan…
1795 playbill
Bob Acres and His Servant, illustration by Edwin Austin Abbey, c. 1895
Elsie Leslie as Lydia Languish in The Rivals, 1899. Photograph by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.