Eugenia and Adelaide,

Eugenia and Adelaide, PDF Author: Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
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Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Eugenia and Adelaide,

Eugenia and Adelaide, PDF Author: Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
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Pages : 250

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Eugenia and Adelaide, a Novel. [By F. Sheridan.].

Eugenia and Adelaide, a Novel. [By F. Sheridan.]. PDF Author: Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
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Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel

Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel PDF Author: Anna M Fitzer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429620217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Frances Sheridan’s Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endures in spite of their separation at the beginning of the novel and remains central to a complex yet coherently drawn web of intriguing tales situated in palatial apartments and remote moss-covered castles. Drawing upon the tragic and comic possibilities of disguise familiar to her from Shakespearean and Restoration drama, and influenced by the romantic entanglements of early prose fiction, Sheridan adopts a sometimes satirical approach to extraordinary events at the same time that she demonstrates a sincere and convincing commitment to the ingenious art of storytelling. Sheridan completed the novel in 1739 when she was just fifteen-years old and Eugenia and Adelaide would prove instrumental to the establishing of Sheridan’s literary reputation as one of the most successful novelists and dramatists of the mid-eighteenth century. This is the first modern edition of Eugenia and Adelaide to be published since the original posthumous publication of 1791 and presents a unique opportunity to explore Sheridan’s contribution to our current understandings of the history of women’s writing, and of reading tastes and practices in the long eighteenth century.

Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs. F. Sheridan ... With remarks upon a late life [by Dr. John Watkins] of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan, and selections from the works of Mrs. Sheridan, etc

Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs. F. Sheridan ... With remarks upon a late life [by Dr. John Watkins] of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan, and selections from the works of Mrs. Sheridan, etc PDF Author: Miss Alicia LEFANU
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Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Eugenia and Adelaide,

Eugenia and Adelaide, PDF Author: Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan
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Pages : 240

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Sheridan

Sheridan PDF Author: Walter Sichel
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Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan PDF Author: Jack E. DeRochi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484804
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan's works--not just plays but also poetry and orations--that endure. These essays reclaim the legacy of the man of letters and partisan bon vivant who burst from obscurity to become a powerful cultural force in Georgian London. This collection covers the many lives of Sheridan, taking into account both his variegated career and the competing accounts of the man, as well as his early verse, which lays the foundation for his success as a playwright. Chapters are devoted to Sheridan's theatre, and provide innovative readings of his most famous dramatic pieces: The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, The Critic, and Pizarro. The volume also includes extensive discussion of the dramatic highs of Sheridan's long political career, thus placing the playwright-politician firmly in the world in which performance and politics were inextricably entwined. Contributors: Mita Choudhury, Jack E. DeRochi, Marianna D'Ezio, Daniel J. Ennis, Emily Friedman, Steven Gores, David Haley, Robert W. Jones, Daniel O'Quinn, Glynis Ridley, John Vance, David Francis Taylor

Eugenia and Adelaide

Eugenia and Adelaide PDF Author: Francis Sheridan
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Novel Relations

Novel Relations PDF Author: Ruth Perry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139454439
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians.

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 PDF Author: Philip H. Highfill
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809315253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.