EPISODE · Nov 18, 2019 · 53 MIN
Episode 53: Rediscovering Sheridan's Smash Hit Pizarro with Dr. Selena Couture & Dr. Alex Dick
from The Theatre History Podcast
We know Richard Brinsley Sheridan as the comic playwright responsible for The Rivals and The School for Scandal. However, one of his most important plays is a major departure from those works. His play Pizarro, an adaptation of an early melodrama by the German playwright August von Kotzebue about the Spanish invasion of Peru, became a smash hit on the London stage in 1799.
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Episode 53: Rediscovering Sheridan's Smash Hit Pizarro with Dr. Selena Couture & Dr. Alex Dick
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