A Trip to Bath
| A Trip to Bath | |
|---|---|
Title page of Sheridan's Plays, 1902 reprint | |
| Written by | Frances Sheridan |
| Characters | Lord Stewkly, Sir Jeremy Bull, Sir Jonathan Bull, Edward (son to Sir Jonathan), Champignion, Stapleton, Lady Filmot, Lady Bell Aircastle, Mrs. Tryfort, Lucy (her daughter), Mrs. Surface |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Setting | Bath, Somerset |
A Trip to Bath, also known as A Journey to Bath, is an unpublished 1765 comedy play by the Irish writer Frances Sheridan.[1][2] The play follows the misadventures of two aristocratic but poor middle-aged characters, Lady Filmot and Lord Stewkly, who are trying to marry two much younger middle class characters, Ms. Lucy Tryfort and Edward Bull, for their money.[3] It survives only in a fragment and was never produced.[3] Sheridan was the mother of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who took the narrative quirks of the character of Mrs. Tryfort and applied them in his character Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals.[4][5]
References
- ^ Sheridan, Frances; Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1902). Fraser Rae, W. (ed.). Sheridan's plays now printed as he wrote them and his mother's unpublished comedy, A journey to Bath. David Nutt (published 1765).
- ^ "The Discovery by Frances Sheridan". New Perspectives Theatre Company NYC. 2024-11-14. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
- ^ a b Kurdi, Mária (2024-12-31). "From Frances Sheridan's A Trip to Bath (1765) to Elizabeth Kuti's The Whisperers (1999): Questions of Genre, Adaptation Strategies and Authorship". FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies. 14 (1): 41–54. doi:10.15170/Focus.14.2024.3. ISSN 3057-8485.
- ^ Reade, Simon (2004-05-15). "The scourge of Bath". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-02-04.
- ^ ""A journey to Bath, a comedy". Acts i, ii, iii, imperfect, By Mrs. Frances Sheridan, mother of R. B. Sheridan (1749). From this play Sheridan took suggestions for his play "The Rivals"". Retrieved February 4, 2026.