How Long to Read Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

How Long Does it Take to Read Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 - 7 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and A Trip to Scarborough. He was also a Whig MP for 32 years in the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780-1806), Westminster (1806-1807), and Ilchester (1807-1812). He is buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the canon and are regularly performed worldwide. LIFE: RB Sheridan was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, where his family had a house on then fashionable Dorset Street. While in Dublin Sheridan attended the English Grammar School in Grafton Street. The family moved permanently to England in 1758 when he was aged seven. He was a pupil at Harrow School from 1762 to 1768. His mother, Frances Sheridan, was a playwright and novelist. She had two plays produced in London in the early 1760s, though she is best known for her novel The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph (1761). His father, Thomas Sheridan, was for a while an actor-manager at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, but following his move to England in 1758 he gave up acting and wrote several books on the subject of education, and especially the standardisation of the English language in education. After Sheridan's period in Harrow School, his father employed a private tutor, Lewis Ker, who directed his studies in his father's house in London, while Angelo instructed him in fencing and horsemanship. In 1772 Sheridan fought two duels with Captain Thomas Mathews, who had written a newspaper article defaming the character of Elizabeth Ann Linley, the woman Sheridan intended to marry. In the first duel, they agreed to fight in Hyde Park, but finding it too crowded they went first to the Hercules Pillars tavern (on the site where Apsley House now stands at Hyde Park Corner) and then on to the Castle Tavern in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Far from its romantic image, the duel was short and bloodless. Mathews lost his sword and, according to Sheridan, was forced to "beg for his life" and sign a retraction of the article. The apology was made public and Mathews, infuriated by the publicity the duel had received, refused to accept his defeat as final and challenged Sheridan to another duel. Sheridan was not obliged to accept this challenge, but could have become a social pariah if he had not. The second duel, fought in July 1772 at Kingsdown near Bath, was a much more ferocious affair. This time both men broke their swords but carried on fighting in a "desperate struggle for life and honour."Both were wounded, Sheridan dangerously, being "borne from the field with a portion of his antagonist's weapon sticking through an ear, his breast-bone touched, his whole body covered with wounds and blood, and his face nearly beaten to jelly with the hilt of Mathews' sword."His remarkable constitution pulled him through, and eight days after this bloody affair the Bath Chronicle was able to announce that he was out of danger. Mathews escaped in a post chaise.

How long is Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan?

Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Richard Brinsley Sheridan is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan aloud.

What Reading Level is Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan?

Plays of Sheridan, Containing the Rivals, the School for Scandal, the Critic (1889). By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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