...Philip B. Daghlian Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 SHERIDAN’S MINORITY WAITERS By PHILIPB. DAGHLIAN ABSOLUTE.Well-recruit will do-let it be so- FAG.0, Sir, recruit will do surprisingly.-Indeed, to give the thing an air, I told Thomas...

...- 221 pp. $10.95. From Queen Anne’s reign to the last decade of Victoria’s, Sheridan is the only dramatist who is popularly known for more than a single play, and nearly the only one who is popularly known at all. Nevertheless, there was no critical book in English devoted...

...Sailendra Kumar Sen Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 SHERIDAN’S LITERARY DEBT THE RIVALS AND HUMPHRY CLINKER By SAILENDRAKUMAR SEN Sheridan’s critics have been very unkind to him. We hope we will not be accused...

...Sheridan Baker J. Paul Hunter. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. xiv + 263 pp. $12.00. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 196 KEVIEWS There are some problems in the book. They arise...

...Myron Matlaw Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ENGLISH VERSIONS OF DIE SPANIER IN PERU By MYRONMATLAW Sheridan’s only tragedy, Pizarro (1799), is usually ignored by scholars and critics. This oversight is unfortunate: the play took...

... from English, a version of Sheridan’s Thp Rivals, did Tieck turn to a work nearer both in time and spirit to his own age; hence, it is the more surprising to find that this has lain almost completely neglected for over a hundred years and is today still unpublished. The manuscript...

...: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. ix 4- 221 pp. $10.95. From Queen Anne’s reign to the last decade of Victoria’s, Sheridan is the only dramatist who is popularly known for more than a single play, and nearly the only one who is popularly known at all. Nevertheless...

... (in French) from at least 1715, and probably earlier, until the time of his death. According to the earl of Orrery, Thomas Sheridan, Swift’s friend and the coeditor with him of the InteZZigencer, was in 1736 engaged “at his leisure hours [in] giving us a translation of Mon- taigne.”81...

... to them depend in part-I should say in large part-on their structure. &line to The Rivals, for in- stance, depends on Sheridan’s having carefully created a series of analogues in which each major character except for Julia is his or her own adversary (or “rival” as blocking character) and each...

... cover for “Jim Crow,” by T. D. Rice, 1834. Courtesy Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, Special Collections, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University Foster History of Transatlantic Minstrelsy 151 Figure 2. Sheet music cover for “Going ober de Mountain...

... of language he, as lexicographer, would be merely exercising a kind of “vicarious jurisdiction” as his Lordship’s delegate. Similar acknowledgments of Lord Chester- field’s interest and authority appear in the works of the two other great dictionary makers of the period, Sheridan and Walker. Sheri...

... University Press, 1961. Pp. 91. $2.75. Knights, L. C. Some Shakespearean Themes. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1960. Pp. 183. $3.50. LeFanu, William (editor). Betsy Sheridan’s Journal : Letters from Sheridan’s Sister, 1784-1786 and 1788-1790. New Brunswick : Rutgers University...

... on the “Gothic roughness” of the English language, and regrets with him its lack of “southern” softness and delicacy.8 Sheridan establishes the authority of his pronunciation by modelling it, as he explains, upon the speech of “an intimate friend and chosen companion of Dean Swift Even Johnson, who...

..., and turn-of-the- century novels. She argues that phallic causality is threatened, on the one hand, by the rejection of structure in Sterne, Mackenzie, and Brooke and, on the other, by a movement toward “affiliation”in Burney (Evelznu) and Frances Sheridan. Opposing the Marxist notion...

... “a sentimental stroke.”l“ After the appearance of Sheridan’s The School for Scan- dal, however, the Review swings back to the older type of comedy as criterion : The variety of pleasing and well-imagined incidents with which Mr. Sheridan has enriched his dramatic performances, together with the high...

... attempted to bottle Milton’s “melodious tear,” commodifying his style while ignoring his prophecy. These efforts were largely motivated by admiration for the poem’s musicality, without regard for what that musicality sought to convey. In 1763 Thomas Sheridan proposed to perform “Lycidas” as part of his...

...- ty which makes him greater than other writers of comedies, who despite their wit and brilliance have remained limited within the tradition of their respective countries. Sheridan, for instance, is hardly known to continental theatre-goers outside of England ; Hol- berg is now...

... and nostrils aflare and daggers drawn, in the roles of the Mac- beths, Richard 111, or Kemble as Rolla in Sheridan’s Pizarro. Mrs. Siddons must really have been something-but, then, see Garrick himself posed as Richard 111, not to mention Kean, in anything he played. Some day a critic will truly...

... against communities like Chajul in the early eighties. The 1s Lacan, Tuchii and Automaton,”in The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psyche analysis, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York Norton, 1978), 53-66. MLQI June 1996 question is, who has...

...: Athlone Press, rev. ed., 1986 (1971). xxxviii + 554 pp. $39.50. FESTS(:HRI FTEN Braunmuller, A. R., and J. C. Bulman (editors). Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of Eugene M...