Abstract

The opening decade of the nineteenth century was the least happy in Sheridan's career. He broke away from his old colleagues in Parliament at one period and was separated from his wife for a time. Yet while certain compensations were offered to him in his political and personal life, his association with Drury Lane Theatre was marked by particular ill-fortune. The truth is that at this time his negligence and procrastination over many years brought his playhouse to the edge of ruin.

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