Locked in a Room with a Pile of Anchovy Sandwiches, Two Bottles of Claret and Act III of ‘The Critic’
David Edgar, 27 November 1997
A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Fintan O’Toole.
Granta, 516 pp., £20, October 1997,1 86207 026 1 Show More
by Fintan O’Toole.
Granta, 516 pp., £20, October 1997,
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life
by Linda Kelly.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 366 pp., £25, April 1997,1 85619 207 5 Show More
by Linda Kelly.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 366 pp., £25, April 1997,
Sheridan’s Nightingale: The Story of Elizabeth Linley
by Alan Chedzoy.
Allison and Busby, 322 pp., £15.99, April 1997,0 7490 0264 6 Show More
by Alan Chedzoy.
Allison and Busby, 322 pp., £15.99, April 1997,
“... got the idea of Mrs Malaprop from his mother’s play A Journey to Bath, using the bare bones of Frances Sheridan’s Mrs Tryfort to create a character who exemplifies ‘what happens when the proper use of language is neglected’. Mrs Malaprop is ‘at one and the same time an example of bad language and a pedant’, demanding attention to propriety and ... ”