English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1024 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sheridan and The School for Scandal
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The idea
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anglo-Irish playwright and owner of Drury Lane, wrote The Rivals, of seventeen seventy-five, and The School for Scandal, of seventeen seventy-seven, a comedy of manners in which Lady Sneerwell spreads gossip and the Surface brothers are tested for their true characters.
In practice
Gossips, hypocrites, a test of character.
Where people slip
Sheridan revives Restoration wit.
Your place on the trail
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