Here I would like to share my slides on Richard Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith. The task was given by Vaidehi ma'am in M.A Sem 1. Department of English, Bhavnagar.

1. Group task on
Oliver Goldsmith
Richard Sheridan
Given by
Vaidehi ma’am
Prepared by
• Rita Dabhi
• Ravina Parmar
• Heena Malek
•Pina Gondaliya
• Nirali Makvana

2. Richard Sheridan
Born :- 30th October, 1751, Dublin, Ireland
Death :- 7th July, 1816
☆ He was an Irish Poet, Satirist, Playwright and long term owner of
the London theatre, Royal Drury lane.
☆ His mother Francis Sheridan was a playwright and novelist.
☆ His father was also an author and wrote several books on
education.
☆ The major incident of his life that change his life : fight with
Mathew

3. ☆ In the year 1772 after the marriage with Elizabethan Ann Linley the both well
settled.
☆ Sheridan started writing the plays. His first play, “ The Rival “ published in
1775. First it was failure in the first night but after huge success of Sheridan, it
has gone on to become a standard of English literature.
☆ After the huge success of “ The Rival “ in shortly he published his next play,
“ The Duenna “ with his father in – law.
☆ His most famous play, “ The School for Scandal “ is considered one of the
greatest Comedies of manner in English.
☆ In1780, he became member of Parliament. Sheridan entered in Parliament on
the side of American Colonial in the political debates of that year.

4. ☆ His first speech in parliament was a defence against the charge
of bribery.
☆ In 1787 Sheridan demanded the impeachment of Warren
Hastings, the first Governor- General of India.
☆ When he felt to be re – elected in Parliament in 1820, after 32
years, this last year were harrassed by debt and disappointment.
American Congress offered Sheridan £ 20,000. But the offered was
refused.
☆ In December 1815, he became ill and died in poverty and buried
in the Poets ‘ Corner of Westminister Abbey.

5. His notable works
☆ The Rival (1775)
☆ St. Patrick’s day (1775)
☆ The Duenna
☆ A Trip to Scarborough ( 1777)
☆ The School for Scandal (1777)
☆ The Camp (1778)
☆ The Critic ( 1779)
☆ The Glorious First of June (1794)
☆ Pizarro (1799)
☆ “ Clio’s Protest “ (1771, Published in 1819)(Collection of Poems)

6. The Rivals
■ Published in 17 January 1775
■ The five act play is the Masterpiece of Sheridan.
■ The plot centeres on the two young lovers, Lydia and Jack.
■ The plot is complex but not overwhelming intricate or powerful
in construction. The Rivals is perhaps the most durable of
english stage comedies.
■ Clearly this comedy lacks real moral seriousness high
asthmatic design.
■ The term “ Malapropism” was coined in reference to the character
in this play.

7. ■ The school for Scandal :
■ The excellent example oF Comedy of manners and most
famous “ Social comedy” in English language.
■ In this play Sheridan revealed the selfishness,
envy,hypocrisy of the society of the time.
■ I think the Purpose of the play is to satirize the manners
and affections of upper class, and moat of the characters
change little from the start of the play until the end.
■ It is blatant attack on the superficiality of the upper class
pointing up their lack of morals and misplaced attention.
■ In this play we find that all characteristic of a Restoration
comedy such as Satire, Love, intrigue, scandal mongering,
Craze for fashion and extravagance Indindebtedness etc.

8. ■ The Critic (1781) :
■ Full title : “The critic, or a tragedy Rehearsed”
■ Burlesque drama in three acts by Sheridan produced in Drury Lane London 1779.
■ Pizarro :(1799)
■ In this work Sheridan made a strong anti- colonial message. He made statements
regarding the English mistreatment of Ireland and India throughout his political career.
■ The Camp (1778)
■ The play gently satirised the preparation of the British to organise home defence
during the American war. It focuses on a military camp England.
■ The Duenna : (1775)
■ One of the most successful operas ever staged in England.

9. ■ Style of writing :
 ● Satirize affected manners of sophisticated society.
 ● His drama reflect the humour with gentle morality and
sentimentality.
 ● Richards talent for sparking dialogue and farce .
 ● His play are frequently noted for a lackof incisiveness and
psychological depth .
 ● The plot revolve around the love affairs , which takes the form of a
pitched battle with words as a weapon .

10. Oliver Goldsmith
Born: 10th November 1730
Death: 04th April 1774
• He was undoubtedly one of the
greatest poets, dramatists,
playwrights and novelist of his time.
• He took up several menial jobs
before hitting it right being a hack
writer for a publisher in London.
• He is reckoned till date are ‘The vicar
of wakefield’, ‘the Deserted village’,
‘good natur’d Man’ and ‘She stoops
to conquer’.

11. # childhood and early life:
There is no specific information as to when was Oliver
Goldsmith actually born.
Born in an American Irish family his father was a curator of the
parish of fargney. It was when young Goldsmith turned two that
his father attained the service of the rector of the Parish of
“Kilkenny west” in country Westmeath which resulted in the
family shifting base to the parsonage at lissoy.
# Career:
He study medicine at the University of Edinburgh but without
much interest. Letter on, he set on a walking tour moving
across Flanders, France, Switzerland and northern Italy.

12. In 1756, he settled in London for an apothecary’s assistant and an
usher of a school.
He contributed as a hack writer for a publisher in London.
He often used the pseudonym James Willingdon during the early
days of his writing.
In 1758, he published the translation of the autobiography of
‘Huguenot Jean Martalhe.’
In 1765, he come up with also lines romantic ballad titled ‘The
Hermit’.
# Personal life and legacy:
He died prematurely in 1774 due to his self-misdiagnosis of his
kidney infection.
Posthumously, the place where he lived has a lane and a school
named after him
Several statues dedicated to him have been built and stanza as the
testimony of his greatness as a writer.

13. # Dramatic works:
1. The Good Natur’d man: A comedy (1768)
2. Epilogue to the sister: A comedy by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox
(1769)
3. Prologue to zobeide: A Tragedy, by Joseph cradock (1771)
4. She stoops to conquer: Or, The mistakes of a Night: A comedy
(1773)
5. The Grumbler ( An adaptation by Oliver Goldsmith)
# Journalism:
1. Contributions to The Monthly Review (1757-58: 1763)
2. Contributions to The Bee (1759)
3. Contributions to The Critical Review (1759-60; 1763)

14. 4. Contributions to The British Magazine (1760)
5. Contributions to The Lady’s Magazine; or polite companion for
the fair sex (1760-61)
6. Contributions to The Westminster magazine (1773)
7. Contributions to The Public Leader (1760-61)
# Other prose works:
1. An Enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe
(1759)
2. The citizon of the world: or, letters from a Chinese philosopher,
2 vols (1762)
3. The life of Richard Nash (1762)
4. The mystery Revealed (1762)

15. 5. An History of England in a series of letters from a nobleman to his
son, 2 vols (1664)
• Preface and introduction
• Vol 2
6. Essays,. By Mr Goldsmith (1765)
7. The Roman History (1769)
8. The life of Henry St. John, lord viscount Bolingbroke (1770)
9. The Life of Thomas Parnell (1770)
10. The History of England (1771)
11. Dr. Goldsmith’s Roman History, Abridged by Himself for the use of
schools (1772)
12. An Abridgement of the History of England (1774)
13. An History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774)
14. Grecian History (1774)
15. The vicar of Wakefield : A Tale (1776)

16. # Poetical works:
1. Edwin and Angelina, A Ballad (1765)
2. The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society: A poem (1765)
3. Poems for young Ladies, [ed. By Goldsmith] (1767)
4. The Deserted Village: A poem (1774)
5. Retaliation: A poem (1774)
6. The Miscellaneous works of Dr. Goldsmith (1775)
7. The Haunch of venison: a Poetical Epistle to lord Clare (1776)
# Letters:
1. A collection of letters
2. Letter to St James’s Chronicle (5 July 1767)

17. # Main works:
(1) The vicar of wakefield:
Supposed to be written by himself-
Is a novel by Irish writer: It was written from 1761 to 1762 and
published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely
read 18th- century novels among Victorians.
Structure of the Novel: The book consists of 32 Chapters
which fall into three parts:
• Chapter 1-3: beginning
• Chapter 4-29: main part
• Chapter 30-32: ending

18. (2) She stoops to conquer:
Is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in
1773.
The play is favourite for study by English literature and theatre
classes in the English – speaking world.
Comedy in five act.
The main theme is appearance VS reality.
(3) The Traveller; Or, A Prospect of Society (1764):
Is a philosophical poem.
In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the cause of
happiness and unhappiness in nation.
It was the work which first made Goldsmith’s name and is still
considered a classic of Mid-18th-century poetry.

19. The Traveller was first published on 19 December 1764 by John
Newbury, though the year was given on the imprint as 1765.
It is a long poem in timed, couplets, giving a survay and
criticism of the social life of various countries in Europe, and
reflects many of Goldsmith’s own wandering and impressions.
It was the first of Goldsmith’s books to feature his name on the
title – page.

20. Reference
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan
 https://www.enotes.com/topics/richard-brinsley-sheridan
 http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/goldsmith/goldsmithbib.php
 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Goldsmith-Anglo-Irish-author

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