Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley

Author: Esther K. Sheldon

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 1400876222

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This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on 18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to and by Sheridan. The author also gives us much new information about Sheridan’s relations with David Garrick. In an appendix, the author has included a Smock-Alley Calendar, giving a daily record of performances and casts. Most of the material in the Calendar has not been collected before and should be invaluable to theater historians. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence
Thomas Sheridan's Career and Influence

Author: Conrad Brunström

Publisher: Transits: Literature, Thought

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781611480382

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This book considers the varied careers of controversial Irish adventurer Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) in terms of a continuum of phonocentrist obsession. Variously employed as an actor-manager, elocutionist, lecturer and educational theorist, Sheridan believed that the key to Irish national renewal and European cultural revival was the cultivation of the spoken word. His stewardship of the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin was marked by considerable innovation along with bitter controversy. Brunström argues that the author's many failures are as interesting as his successes and that he stands as a fascinating example of the power of a single idea, variously interpreted and implemented.