The school for scandal
By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Contributors: Blake, Ann, 1941-
Edition: 3rd ed. / edited by Ann Blake.
Series: New mermaids; New mermaids
Publisher: A. & C. Black
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 172
Description: Sheridan's play, first performed at London's Drury Lane Theatre in 1777, mixes comic situations and tender feeling with brilliant repartee and a sharp satirical edge, in a smart, witty play about the pleasures and perils of scandal. The plots, scandals and disguises result in brilliantly contrived comic scenes, sometimes connecting with moments of human pain and happiness, before returning to the splendid artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly.