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Sheridan belongs to ...................

AThe Victorian Age

BThe Romantic Period

CThe Augustan Age

DThe Edwardian Era

Answer:

C. The Augustan Age

Read Explanation:

  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) was not part of the Augustan Age, which generally refers to the early 18th-century literary period dominated by writers like Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Addison.

  • The Augustan Age (named after the Roman Emperor Augustus) is characterized by a focus on order, reason, satire, and classical influences.

  • Sheridan, however, was a playwright and politician active in the late 18th century, a period often associated with the Age of Sensibility or the early Romantic period.

  • His famous works, such as The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777), belong to the tradition of Restoration and 18th-century comedy, but they do not strictly fall under the Augustan Age


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