Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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Thomas Sheridan
Standard Name: Sheridan, Thomas,, 1719? - 1788
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
's father, John Lee
, was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden
, with an interim desertion to Drury Lane
, where, however... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Through her father, CB
was descended from the writer Frances Sheridan
, though the Sheridan blood was thought of in the family as bad blood, and CB
's biographer seems to associate it solely... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Sheridan | Frances Chamberlaine
married Thomas Sheridan
, actor and manager of the Smock Alley Theatre
(or Theatre Royal) in Dublin. |
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | David Garrick
showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan
as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe
long remembered the opening as delightful and... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
opened her career as an actress at Smock Alley Theatre
, Dublin, as the heroine in Shakespeare
's Romeo and Juliet, playing to the middle-aged Romeo of the manager, Thomas Sheridan
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Ann Thicknesse | Lord Jersey
attempted to sabotage the first concert before it happened by encouraging a family member to hold a competing event on the same day. Thicknesse, Ann. A Letter from Miss F—d. 1761. 29 |
| Residence | Frances Sheridan | FS
and her family had fled to Blois in France, where creditors could not reach them and they could live on Thomas
's state pension. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xv |
| Residence | Frances Sheridan | Thomas Sheridan
leased the Smock Alley Theatre
to others for two years and went to act in London. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xl Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. ix |
| Residence | Frances Sheridan | Having grown up, married, and borne five children in Dublin, FS
moved to join her husband
in London, where they lived in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xl Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 17 |
| Residence | Frances Sheridan | FS
and her husband
moved back from London to Ireland; Frances lodged with her children in a village forty miles away from Dublin. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xl Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. ix |
| Residence | Frances Sheridan | FS
and her husband
travelled back to London from Ireland; they did not intend to stay, and left all but their eldest child behind. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xl Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 19 |
| Residence | Frances Sheridan | FS
accompanied her husband
to Bath, Bristol and Edinburgh as he wore himself out on a lecture tour designed largely to keep the family out of the clutches of its creditors. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xl Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1995. xv |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | The young Frances Chamberlaine (later FS
) wrote a satirical poem, The Owls, about a feud of the moment in the Dublin theatrical establishment, supporting the manager, Thomas Sheridan
, her future husband. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 15 |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | The young James Boswell
heard Frances
and Thomas Sheridan
read her play The Discovery aloud at their home in Windsor, their voices alternating. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 22 |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | Boswell
loved the play and was highly flattered by an invitation to supply a prologue. In fact he wrote two successive prologues for it, of which, however, the first was turned down by the author... |
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