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The School for Scandal: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny

Autor Richard Brinsley Sheridan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2009
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 -1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman. On May 8, 1777, Sheridan directed his masterpiece, A School for Scandal, at the Drury Lane Theater. School for Scandal is a comedy of manners contrasting two brothers who are both are courting the same woman. Joseph, a hypocrite, is interested in her fortune, and Charles, a spendthrift, is in love with her. A gossipy group of friends complicate matters.
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ISBN-13: 9781438521886
ISBN-10: 143852188X
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Book Jungle

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Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance
and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently
performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial
mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and married a much
younger wife in the hope that she will be too innocent to cross him. In
fact, Lady Teazle spends her time with Lady Sneerwell and the worst set
of scandalmongers in town, who have a beady eye on Charles Surface, the
reckless young libertine, in expectation of seeing him ruined. Charles,
however, turns out to possess the sterling virtues of generosity and
loyalty to friends and family; and it is his hypocritical brother
Joseph who ends up the villain of the piece. This edition discusses
Sheridan's earlier drafts for the play and sets it into its theatrical
context of anti-sentimentalism and its social context of the London
High Society in which Sheridan had begun to move.