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Take a look at Elon Musk’s new patent below…

Because it protects a new invention that could rewrite the future of wealth forever.

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Let that sink in.

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Self-driving cars.

Reusable rockets that land themselves.

Brain chips that let paralyzed people control computers with their minds.

Crazy ideas.

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Good morning.

Today, a comedy that flopped so badly on opening night it closed after one performance… and the one character from it who has outlived everything else Sheridan ever wrote.

Let’s begin.

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The Character Who Named an Entire Kind of Mistake

Richard Brinsley Sheridan—“Malapropism”

L	ondon. 17 January, 1775. A twenty-three-year-old playwright watched his very first play fail so badly on opening night that it closed after a single performance.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) had grown up in Dublin and Bath, the son of an actor-manager father and a novelist mother. His comedy, The Rivals, opened at Covent Garden with a cast that critics found badly miscast, particularly one actor playing a blustering Irishman as, in the reviews’ words, “ridiculous and disgusting.”

Sheridan rewrote the play within days, recast the offending role, and brought it back… the second version was a triumph, establishing him overnight as London’s most fashionable young playwright.

This is Sheridan, at roughly the height of his fame as both a dramatist and, later, a member of Parliament.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 18th-century portrait.

One character from the rescued play outlasted the rest of the cast entirely. Mrs. Malaprop, an overbearing aunt trying to sound educated, constantly reaches for impressive-sounding words and lands on the wrong ones.

“He is the very pineapple of politeness.”

Mrs. Malaprop, Act III, meaning “pinnacle”

She hopes her niece will “reprehend” the meaning of a lesson, when she means “apprehend.” She praises a young man’s grasp of “epitaphs,” meaning “epithets.”

Sheridan named her as a joke in itself: “Malaprop” comes directly from the French phrase mal à propos, meaning inappropriate or poorly placed. Byron was using “malaprop” as a standalone word by 1814. By 1849, Charlotte Brontë had used the fuller word “malapropism” in a novel, and the term has stuck in English ever since.

I used to assume “malapropism” was some old grammarian’s technical term. It’s a joke about one specific fictional aunt, still doing the exact job Sheridan built her for, two and a half centuries later.

Shakespeare had used the same comic device two centuries earlier, through the constable Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. English almost settled on “Dogberryism” instead, a term first recorded in 1836. Sheridan’s aunt simply won the naming rights.

The play has kept turning up in unexpected places since. A young J.R.R. Tolkien, decades before writing The Lord of the Rings, once played Mrs. Malaprop himself in an amateur student production.

One flopped opening night, rescued within days… and a minor character who has kept correcting the world’s vocabulary ever since.

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Three Things Worth Knowing

I	Architecture Drury Lane

Sheridan later became owner and manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London’s grandest playhouse, holding over three thousand seats. In 1809, the building burned to the ground while Sheridan watched from a nearby coffeehouse, reportedly remarking that a man could surely be allowed to drink a glass of wine by his own fireside.

II	Philosophy Language Games

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein later argued that a word’s meaning comes entirely from how it gets used within a shared social practice, not from any fixed definition sitting behind it. Mrs. Malaprop’s errors work as comedy precisely because the audience already shares that practice; the joke only lands if everyone silently agrees on the correct word she failed to reach.

III	Art Gainsborough’s Muse

Sheridan’s first wife, the singer Elizabeth Ann Linley, was painted repeatedly by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), including a large full-length portrait now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Sheridan had eloped with her before either of them turned twenty, and fought two duels defending her honor before they were even formally married.

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Connoisseur’s Diary

Worth Seeing This Week

Sheridan is buried in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey, alongside Chaucer, Dickens, and dozens of other major English writers.

Where: Westminster Abbey, 20 Deán’s Yard, London SW1P 3PA. Tickets: general admission runs around £30 for adults; check the Abbey’s site for current pricing and hours. Insider tip: Poets’ Corner is easy to walk past quickly; slow down here specifically, since the floor and walls are dense with names most visitors recognize but rush by. Plan a visit at westminster-abbey.org →

Worth Reading

The Rivals — Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775). The full comedy, considerably funnier and sharper than the single quotable character it’s now mostly remembered for.

The Real Sheridan — Malcolm Sinclair. A biography focused on separating the theatrical, politically active Sheridan from the myths that grew up around him.

The School for Scandal and Other Plays — Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A fuller collection, including the play many scholars consider his actual masterpiece.

Explore Further

Watch: the full text of “The Rivals” is free to read at Project Gutenberg, alongside most of Sheridan’s other plays.

Browse: the British Library’s online Discovering Literature archive holds digitized 18th-century playbills and reviews from the play’s original run.

Listen: BBC Radio 4’s archive occasionally airs full-cast recordings of “The Rivals”; search “BBC Sounds The Rivals Sheridan” for the most recent broadcast.

Test Your Knowledge

1Where does the word “malaprop” come from?

The French phrase “mal à propos,” meaning inappropriate

A Latin legal term for a spoken error in court

Sheridan’s own family surname before it was anglicized

Answer: The French phrase “mal à propos.” Sheridan built the character’s entire name as a joke about her habit of misusing words.

2What term nearly beat “malapropism” into common English usage?

“Dogberryism,” from a Shakespeare character

“Absolutism,” from another character in the same play

“Sheridanism,” named after the playwright himself

Answer: “Dogberryism.” Shakespeare used the same joke two centuries earlier, but Sheridan’s version is the one that stuck.

3What did Sheridan reportedly say while watching Drury Lane burn down in 1809?

A man could surely be allowed a glass of wine by his own fireside

He vowed to rebuild it within the year

Nothing; he refused to watch it burn at all

Answer: A man could surely have a glass of wine by his own fireside. He watched the theater he owned and managed burn to the ground from a nearby coffeehouse.

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That’s all for today.

Tomorrow, we look back over the whole week… an impossible sunset, a small man carrying too much weight, a widening spiral, and a joke that renamed a whole category of mistake.

In good taste,

Charles T. Mayfair

Editor, Connoisseur Daily

P.S. Try this at dinner tonight… ask if anyone can name the word for the exact mistake Mrs. Malaprop makes. Most people have made one themselves this week without noticing.