Publisher Description
The School for Scandal is playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s most
enduring work and one of the greatest English comedies of manners. Set in London
amid the fashionable set of the 1770s, it is a clever satire on that society’s proclivity
for gossip and hypocrisy. Witty and full of comic situations, the play centers
around an intertwined plot of infidelity, love triangles, and tests of
loyalty—all convoluted by rumors and false scandal.
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About Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was a beloved Irish-born playwright of the
eighteenth century. He left a career in law to pursue theater, and in less than
a year had made a name for himself among contemporary dramatists. Though
best-remembered as the author of brilliant comedies of manners, Sheridan was
also a significant politician and orator, serving as secretary of foreign affairs,
secretary to the treasury, treasurer of the navy, and a member of Parliament
for thirty-two years.