by Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140432404
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«The School for Scandal and Other Plays» is the theater anthology by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages).
Volume bringing together three comedies by the Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals, The School for Scandal and The Critic. With romantic entanglements, mistaken identities and sharp dialogue, Sheridan satirizes hypocrisy, gossip and the conventions of eighteenth-century English high society.
This English-language edition was published in 1989 in the Penguin Classics series, with an introduction and notes by Eric Rump. The three plays premiered in the 1770s.
For readers of classic theater, satirical comedy and 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.
