His most successful partnership began with an adaptation of Vanbrugh's The Relapse, in which he revised Bernithia's unsavory character and made her temptation of Loveless the natural response of a wronged woman.
One of his works features Tilburina falling in love with Don Ferolo Whiskerandos during a production of Mr. Puff's The Spanish Armada, while another sees the title figure foiling the Jew Isaac's plot to marry Jerome's daughter Louisa. His most successful partnership began with an adaptation of Vanbrugh's The Relapse, in which he revised Bernithia's unsavory character and made her temptation of Loveless the natural response of a wronged woman. Although he served as secretary to the Treasury, where he gave a brilliant speech on the Begums of Oudh that called for the impeachment of Hastings, he was always strapped for cash after his marriage to Eliza Linley.  Even his later successes, including a work about a viceroy of Peru, could not save the failing theatrical venture that had started off so promisingly with a work about Ensign Beverly, Bob Acres, and Lydia Languish. FTP identify this author of such comic plays as St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, and The Rivals.
One of his works features Tilburina falling in love with Don Ferolo Whiskerandos during a production of Mr. Puff's The Spanish Armada, while another sees the title figure foiling the Jew Isaac's plot to marry Jerome's daughter Louisa.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan