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A Traitor's Kiss: Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fintan O'toole
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hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
This is a biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the author of The School for Scandal and The Rival . He was the quintessential dramatist-entrepreneur, an 18th-century wit and man about town, and one of the foremost politicians in Britain - an unthinkable combination today. Sheridan was also a complicated and ambitious Irish person, interested in the Gaelic culture of the Catholic majority, and his relationship with English society was extraordinarily tense. A friend of the parliamentary radicals led by Fox, he sailed close to the wind of treason in his support for the United Irishmen, the organization ... Read more
This is a biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the author of The School for Scandal and The Rival . He was the quintessential dramatist-entrepreneur, an 18th-century wit and man about town, and one of the foremost politicians in Britain - an unthinkable combination today. Sheridan was also a complicated and ambitious Irish person, interested in the Gaelic culture of the Catholic majority, and his relationship with English society was extraordinarily tense. A friend of the parliamentary radicals led by Fox, he sailed close to the wind of treason in his support for the United Irishmen, the organization ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
526
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862070264
SKU
KMK0024118
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99-2
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