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Mr. MalAgitPropaganda

Mr. MalAgitPropaganda Page 128 Books Cat h e r i n e S h e e hy A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 – 1816 by Fintan O’Toole 1998: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his most recent biographer have a common agenda: the use of Sheridan’s popularity as a playwright to weigh in on the issue of Irish independence. It would have been better left to a biography of Judas Iscariot. A Traitor’s Kiss is the dreadful title of Fintan O’Toole’s finally eminently readable and largely satisfying biography of Sheridan. If you pick up this book expecting the typical theatrical bio, full of fulsome anecdotes about backstage shenanigans, you will be disappointed. O’Toole is after frying much bigger fish. His aim is no less than complete rehabilitation; he seeks to reclaim Sheridan’s atrophied Irishness. Unfortunately the waters are a bit rough at the top. Here I call on the full privilege of my surname and my sainted mother’s maiden name, Galligan, and her sainted mother’s before her, Murphy, when I say that only an Irishman would begin such a biography: “About fifteen years after his death, Richard Brinsley Sheridan spoke to a young http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theater Duke University Press

Mr. MalAgitPropaganda

Sheehy, Catherine
Theater , Volume 30 (1) – Jan 1, 2000
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Copyright 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre
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Page 128 Books Cat h e r i n e S h e e hy A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 – 1816 by Fintan O’Toole 1998: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his most recent biographer have a common agenda: the use of Sheridan’s popularity as a playwright to weigh in on the issue of Irish independence. It would have been better left to a biography of Judas Iscariot. A Traitor’s Kiss is the dreadful title of Fintan O’Toole’s finally eminently readable and largely satisfying biography of Sheridan. If you pick up this book expecting the typical theatrical bio, full of fulsome anecdotes about backstage shenanigans, you will be disappointed. O’Toole is after frying much bigger fish. His aim is no less than complete rehabilitation; he seeks to reclaim Sheridan’s atrophied Irishness. Unfortunately the waters are a bit rough at the top. Here I call on the full privilege of my surname and my sainted mother’s maiden name, Galligan, and her sainted mother’s before her, Murphy, when I say that only an Irishman would begin such a biography: “About fifteen years after his death, Richard Brinsley Sheridan spoke to a young

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