Bartleby.com: Richard Brinsley Sheridan - http://www.bartleby.com/people/SheridanR.html
Portrait, quotations, and the text of his comedy The School for Scandal. |
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1 - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6741
By Irish poet Thomas Moore, a friend of the playwright's son Charles. First of two volumes. From the elder Sheridan's birth, to 1787 issues in Parliament. In plain text, as a zip file, or in Plucker format, from Project Gutenberg. |
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 2 - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7775
By Thomas Moore. Second of two volumes. From the 1787 impeachment of Warren Hastings, to Sheridan's funeral. In plain text (two versions), as a zip file, or in Plucker format, from Project Gutenberg. |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 - http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dft21
Presents Sheridan as not only a witty playwright but also a poet and, after his entry into national politics, an orator. Timeline, brief descriptions of plays, with selected poems and speeches, evaluations by literary contemporaries. |
Richard Sheridan - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRsheridan.htm
A biography of the playwright and MP for Stafford, for schoolchildren. |