The dramatic works of R. B. Sheridan, Esq. Containing, The school for scandal. The rivals. The duenna. The critic.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryT060198Each play has a separate undated titlepage and half-title, but the pagination and register of 'The rivals' and 'The duenna' continue that of 'The school for scandal'. The imprint is false, probably printed at York for Wilson, Spence and Mawman. Paper dated 1796 & 1797.London i.e. York?]: printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1797?]. 4],215, 1]; 2],54p., plate: port.; 12 Less
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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays suc...
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