The school for scandal : and The critic / by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; with introduction and notes by Robert Herring.The school for scandal : and The critic / by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; with introduction and notes by Robert Herring.
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The school for scandal : and The critic / by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; with introduction and notes by Robert Herring.
Description
xv, 92 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection
Contenu
The school for scandal. -- The critic ; 10 characters (7m, 3w) ; 17 characters (12m, 5w).
Sommaire
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL : 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.
THE CRITIC :The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion seemed imminent and patriotic fervour superseded party divisions and personal animosities. The Critic satirises the panic of the summer in the form of the comically misconceived tragedy 'The Spanish Armada' that is in rehearsal in the second and third acts, but The Critic ends with genuine patriotic feeling.
Production
Comedy ; prologue ; epilogue ; 5 acts ; 12m, 4w.
Sujets
Collaboration
Cote
D S552s 1938
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