The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

PREFACE.

THE Memoir prefixed to the present edition of Sheridan's Dramatic Works contains the most striking circumstances that marked the eventful life of the author. These are necessarily condensed, and such ouly recorded as are based upon unimpeachable testimony; the numerous apocryphal auecdotes which have found their way into circulation having been intentionally rejected. The object of the editor has been to place before the public, in a single volume, both the Memoirs and the Plays in as authentic a form as existing materials permit. The difficulties attendant upon such a task may be gathered from the facts hereinafter narrated.

G. G. S

CONHENTE

KAPITAL 12

Sheridan, his birth, 8-Bent u Farizants
-Visits Bani 11-os en Ts Le
Matthews, 32-Domestic iconstone 2-
39.—Its populating, £-The Irema" —
Linley and Games, 47 —Jamani's meet. £.
Lane, 49.-Fase of fetare 1-1
-Comedy of their

Falsehoods respecting 1. Easy f Interrani.
the play, 6-Retirement of I. Iz te SHE
Sheridan and Palmer 4-fentientiza
79.-Mismanagement & Jary Lee L

property, 82-Inot a te tenth tim

—Its impression n de me me f

and Miss Pipe, bijective fieria &

89. State of the pitical vs H-Ser

first speeches in die Ene k-Imri za mata police, 95-Bill or preventing Jesection Anows he a riage Act, -Amara Rigby Zigmanter € he 3 m

against the American var man for I

ingham Administration, 210-mented me f te sunt prot State, -Coalition, Collision with

of the Treamy,

-rruggiehe Bat Inda I.

opposes Pitt's measura, 1-Lelected ir fut

himself on the Westminster eing.

with Mr. Rolle, 166-Tigrans ma

107.-Charges against Warren Esting 11 her new home
on the occasion, 112-Bningum set to sorte 21 and Tex
113.-Impeachment of Warren Rating
121.-Eagerness of the public a ear herttan,
dress, 126.-Erulation of his family 25-ice
Account of the malaty from His Burners Team
Question, 134-Views of Sherias
the House, 136.-Ha Jajesty's maturation a
Sheridan's father, The Freach Berciation. 22—sandsity