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» Bartleby.com: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
   Portrait, quotations, and the text of his comedy The School for Scandal.
   http://www.bartleby.com/people/SheridanR.html

» Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1
   By Irish poet Thomas Moore, a friend of the playwright's son Charles. First of two volumes. From the elder Sheridan's birth, to 1787 issues in Parliament. In plain text, as a zip file, or in Plucker format, from Project Gutenberg.
   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6741

» Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 2
   By Thomas Moore. Second of two volumes. From the 1787 impeachment of Warren Hastings, to Sheridan's funeral. In plain text (two versions), as a zip file, or in Plucker format, from Project Gutenberg.
   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7775

» Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
   Presents Sheridan as not only a witty playwright but also a poet and, after his entry into national politics, an orator. Timeline, brief descriptions of plays, with selected poems and speeches, evaluations by literary contemporaries.
   http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dft21

» Richard Sheridan
   A biography of the playwright and MP for Stafford, for schoolchildren.
   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRsheridan.htm

» TheatreHistory.com: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
   1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry on the Irish-born playwright, and a synopsis of his comedy A School for Scandal.
   http://www.theatrehistory.com/irish/sheridan001.html

» Wikipedia: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
   Introduction to the playwright and politician, with hyperlinks to related topics.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan