by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Crane · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713642599
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«The School for Scandal» is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy, published by Methuen Drama in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Satirical comedy portraying the gossip and hypocrisy of eighteenth-century London high society. The plot combines intrigues, misunderstandings and biting dialogue to show how appearances deceive, while some characters try to protect their reputation and others exploit the rumors.
Volume in the New Mermaids series, edited by F.W. Bateson, with an article by David Crane on the original staging of the play.
Aimed at readers of classic theater and students of eighteenth-century English literature.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777). He served as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan died in 1816 and was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the Western canon and are frequently performed around the world.
