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The School for Scandal and Other Plays

The School for Scandal and Other Plays Trade paperback - 1989

by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Penguin Classics, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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  • Title The School for Scandal and Other Plays
  • Author Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, London
  • Date 1989
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 046778
  • ISBN 9780140432404 / 014043240X
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.71 x 5.02 x 0.67 in (19.58 x 12.75 x 1.70 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89132729
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.6

Summary

"His Comic Muse does not go about prying into obscure corners, or collecting idle curiosities, but shows her laughing face, and points to her rich treasure—the follies of mankind"

Thus wrote William Hazlitt of Sheridan, whom he thought shone 'like Hesperus' among the comic writers of the eighteenth century. As a playwright Sheridan had a brief but brilliant career, and between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-eight he wrote two of the funniest plays in our literature, The Rivals and The School for Scandal, and a wonderful farce, The Critic. Ingenious plots, agile and eloquent wit, and an unerring eye for the comic situation characterize Sheridan's drama. Never an insistent moralist, he delighted in deflating hypocrisy and in satirizing the manners of his age. As Eric Ramp writes in the Introduction, while Sheridan was no great innovator, "the three comedies by which he is now known are in many ways the best that Georgian theatre has to offer and they are comedies which, over the last two hundred years, have added much, as Dr Johnson said about Garrick, to 'the gaiety of nations'".

From the publisher

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born in 1751, the son of an actor-elocutionist, and educated at Harrow. He escorted the singer Elizabeth Linley to France, fought two duels on her behalf, and married her in 1773. In 1775 he made a spectacular debut as a dramatist with The Rivals, St Patrick’s Day and The Duenna, a comic opera. The following year he acquired Garrick’s share in the Drury Lane Theatre, which he managed until it was burnt down in 1809. The School for Scandal was produced in 1777 and The Critic in 1779. From 1780 until 1812 Sheridan was an M.P. and held several government offices. During 1787 and 1788 he made some celebrated speeches supporting the impeachment of Warren Hastings. He died in 1816.
Eric Rump studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, for his B.A. and at the University of Toronto for his Ph.D., and is now an Associate Professor in the English Department of Glendon College, York University, Toronto. He is the author of a number of articles on both Restoration and modern drama and has edited The Comedies of William Congreve for the Penguin Classics.
Eric Rump studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, for his B.A. and at the University of Toronto for his Ph.D., and is now an Associate Professor in the English Department of Glendon College, York University, Toronto. He is the author of a number of articles on both Restoration and modern drama and has edited The Comedies of William Congreve for the Penguin Classics.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was the son of an actor-elocutionist and educated at Harrow. He escorted the singer Elizabeth Linley to France, fought two duels on her behalf and married her in 1773. In 1775 he made a spectacular debut as a dramatist with The Rivals, St Patrick's Day and The Duenna, a comic opera. In 1776 he acquired Garrick's share in the Drury Lane Theatre which he managed until it burnt down in 1809. The School for Scandal was produced in 1777. From 1780 till 1812, Sheridan was an MP and held several government offices. Eric Rump is an Associate Professor of English at Glendon Collge, York University, Toronto. He is the author of a number of articles on both Restoration and modern drama.

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