Fintan O'Toole
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A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
Fintan O'Toole
The great Irish-English playwright—his politics, his impassioned life.
A tale of stunning literary success, political celebrity and intrigue, early death, murder, treason, and revolution, this extraordinary book takes as its subject one of the most exciting and enigmatic figures in Irish and English history.
Dramatist, politician, entrepreneur, philanderer, duelist, and revolutionary (or traitor), Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a man of many contradictions: a Protestant gentleman who cared about the rights of the Irish Catholic peasantry; a creative writer…
