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Definition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1. Noun. Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Literary usage of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the greatest scion of this extraordinarily talented
family, ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born in Dublin in 1751. ..."
2. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1642-1780 by George Henry Nettleton (1914)
"CHAPTER XVIII Richard Brinsley Sheridan THE dramatic work of RICHARD BRINSLEY
SHERIDAN (1751-1816) marks at once the height of the reaction against ..."
3. Essays and Reviews by Edwin Percy Whipple (1853)
"Richard Brinsley Sheridan.* THE elegant edition of Sheridan.'s dramatic works,
published by ... Speeches of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. ..."
4. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan by Frederick Tupper, James Waddell Tupper (1914)
"Richard Brinsley Sheridan THE RIVALS AND THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL SHERIDAN'S great
years may be divided naturally into two periods, one from 1774 to 1779, ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Richard Brinsley Sheridan [1751-1816} DRINKING SONG HERE'S to the maiden of
bashful fifteen, Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting ..."
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