Quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's books, and about them
No Name on The Rivals: “The Rivals' is the play, papa--'The Rivals,' by the famous what's-his-name--and they want ME to act!”
Billy Budd on The Rivals: “I felt with Bob Acres in the _Rivals_, that 'my valour was certainly going.'”
The Story of My Life on The Rivals: “Once while I was calling on him in Boston he acted the most striking parts of "The Rivals" for me.”
Main Street on The School for Scandal: “Guy Pollock answered with disconcerting readiness, "I'll tell you: since we're going to try to do something artistic, and not simply fool around, I believe we ought to give something classic. How about 'The School for Scandal'?"”
Alexander Hamilton on The School for Scandal: “The Churches...befriended the spendthrift playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of The School for Scandal, who once refused to satisfy his creditors on the grounds that “paying only encourages them.””
Washington: A Life on The School for Scandal: “The first play he saw, on May 11, 1789, was his all-time satirical favorite, William Sheridan’s The School for Scandal.”
How to Read and Why on The School for Scandal: “Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, were joined in later rimes by Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest”
The Prisoner of Zenda on The Critic: “I called on George Featherly at the Embassy, and we had a bit of dinner together at Durand's, and afterwards dropped in to the Opera; and after that we had a little supper, and after that we called on Bertram Bertrand, a versifier of some repute and Paris correspondent to _The Critic_.”
Love and Freindship on The Critic: “must refer all those who may wish to be acquainted with the particulars of his life, to Mr Sheridan's play of the Critic.”