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Jack E. DeRochi is associate professor of English at Winthrop University. He has published several articles on late eighteenth-century drama and satire in such publications as Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Research and Studies in American Humor. His essay on the emergence of the masculine gothic was included in Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage (2007).
Daniel J. Ennis is professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of Enter the Press-Gang: Representations of Naval Impressment in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (2002) and edited, with Judith B. Slagle, a collection of essays entitled Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage (2007). He has published essays on John Dryden, Christopher Smart and Lord Byron among others.
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jack E. DeRochi and Daniel J. Ennis
One: The Many Lives of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Jack E. DeRochi
Two: Sheridan’s Early Style
Robert Jones
Three: The Literary Origins of Sir Lucius O’Trigger
David Haley
Four: Reflections upon Maintaining a Competitive Edge: The Duenna and her Peers at Drury Lane
Mita Choudhury
Five: Schools Beyond Scandal, 1776-1800
Emily Friedman
Six: The Rule of Scandal: Sheridan in the Age of Wilde and Shaw
John Vance
Seven: Naumachia and the Structure of The Critic
Daniel J. Ennis
Eight: The Lees and Sheridan: An Unexamined Connection
Steven Gores
Nine: Sheridan’s Courtroom Dramas: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings and the Trial of the Bounty Mutineers
Glynis Ridley
Ten: Pizarro’s Spectacular Dialectics: Sheridan’s Bridge to the Cosmopolitical Future
Daniel O’Quinn
Eleven: Sheridan and Women
Marianna D’Ezio
Twelve: Caricaturing Sheridan
David Francis Taylor
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
Transformative figures in their own right, the editors effectively update the enigmatic impresario for a current-day scholarly audience. The strength of DeRochi and Ennis’ collection resides in the treatment of its principal subject as a dynamic and complex participant in the social, political, and artistic discourses of the eighteenth century. . .DeRochi and Ennis bring together discrete critical voices, creating a holistic portrait of Sheridan as poet, playwright, critic, orator, and polemicist. In its desire to bring Sheridan into the twenty-first century, the collection imitates its principal subject, whose ability to transform himself with the changing times is dramatically and decisively detailed in these pages. . . .the collection is astoundingly great.
— The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer