Episode 53: Rediscovering Sheridan's Smash Hit Pizarro with Dr. Selena Couture & Dr. Alex Dick

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Recorded18 Nov 2019

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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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