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This article profiles dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. He was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland. Sheridan became the manager of the Drury Lane Theatre from 1776 to 1809. His first play, The Rivals, exaggerates the idea of a society in which Mrs. Malaprop is the personification of pretentiousness; where the novels hidden under books of sermons and advice on etiquette can be seen as a metaphor for hiding one's true feelings under masks of sentiment and decorum. The School for Scandal makes the moral point more bitingly. It shows the corruption of innocence as well as reputation in deliberate, often malicious, slander and denigration, by hypocrisy masquerading as rectitude. He died on July 7, 1816 in London, England. |
