Question

Significance of the Sheridan play (10 marks).​

Answer 1

Sheridan cast a more capable actor in the lead for its second performance, and it was a huge success, immediately establishing the young playwright's reputation and the favour of fashionable London. It went on to become a standard of English literature.

Died: 7 July 1816 (aged 64); 14 Savile Row, London, England

Spouse(s): Elizabeth Ann Linley, Esther Jane Ogle