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Title	:	The School for Scandal
Author	:	Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 91 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2006 by Digireads.com (first published May 8th 1777)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Theatre. Fiction. Literature. 18th Century

The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Paperback | Pages: 91 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 5518 Users | 191 Reviews

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I had Richard Brinsley Sheridan on my list to read; an every growing list "to read".💕 I always find it interesting how we readers come to our next book and why "The School for Scandal" came ahead of all others and I chose it now? It had to do with Ouida's Puck and the discussion of plays and that play being mentioned; look below for those quotes if interested. Having Shakespeare on my list and will read this year or next; why I put him off? Intimidation, I guess? I read "Romeo and Juliet" in High School, hmm some 35 years ago, egads that is long ago!!😊
It seems this Irish playwright was a bit of a poor speller and his use of punctuation was quite off, I did not read this version but in my Delphi Collection of his works, where I have notes and highlights for those interested- look on my Richard Brinsley Sheridan shelf-which mentions this fact. I feel akin to a past fellow Irishman for it is unknown if my Irish part is the culprit to my errors.

Well I can just imagine being at the Drury Lane Theatre in May of 1777; watching this production but I doubt my ancestors would have had boxed seats; unawares of my ancestry past, I would love to travel back in time to taste all that surrounds and is that play. I found it brilliant in humor, satire and everything so to its era. I have read classic books which brings out hypocrisy and gossiping to do another harm, many times undeserved. That is this play in it so beautifully portrayed. The characters' names are quite funny and to the point; Mrs. Candour, Mr. Surface, Snake and Lady Sneerwell are some.
The play in brief- two brothers are quite different; one is the rake and other other is a man of sentiment. The older guardians want to test these young men to find them out but one older gentleman is prejudiced one way and the other lies in the other direction. It is humorous throughout.

A Goodreads friend, Radwa linked an audio version; I will listen to this week and report back how close that plays out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqWX0j...

****Having finished listening to the play my thoughts; it was enjoyable but somethings were different and they also departed from the lines at some points. Several more gossip items not in the actual. My version had prose at the beginning and end. Snake's part in the beginning was taken by a cousin of Lady Sneerwell and he does not show up till the last act. It was enjoyable since I read this but my mind takes things in better when read so I can go slow when need be and get the whole of the play. The actors did a fine job! 😊***

" First staged at the Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777, The School for Scandal received an enthusiastic welcome from audiences, though it only initially ran for twenty performances in its first season. However, it returned the following season for more than forty performances and by the end of the eighteenth century it had been staged more than two hundred times. The play was well received by critics, as they celebrated the wit and morals of the work. The essayist and critic, William Hazlitt, was effusive in his praise, describing it ‘the most finished and faultless comedy we have’ and stating that, ‘It professes a faith in the natural goodness as well as habitual depravity of human nature’. Similarly impressed was the late nineteenth century poet and critic, Edmund Gosse, who commented in A History of Eighteenth Century Literature that it was ‘perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue’."


Below some comments made by characters in Ouida's Puck; The School for Scandal is mentioned as well as Shakespeare in regards to comparing Sheridan in brief. The errors in quotes below belong to my ebook version, sorry for that.
"At that moment she was called, and passed on to the stage. The piece played that night was the perennial "School for Scandal." In such pure comedy and elegant art she was supreme, they said; though her still greater triumphs were in parts of pathos and of power. Lady Teazle is a rdle which any actress who is graceful and a gentlewoman can play with ease. There are but little light and shade in it; and there is not any kind of passion. But even here there was so much grace in her; all conventional readings were so utterly discarded; there were such charming alternations of playful piquance and of scornful dignity; whilst over the whole was cast the ineffable charm of a youth so seductive, that I no longer wondered at the celebrity with which the town had crowned her."
"Why do people only tolerate Sheridan, and go into ecstasies over burlesques ?" said Beltran. "Because we want to laugh and not to think," said Denzil. "Now, to laugh at Sheridan you must first think with him."
"She answered you as to Shakspeare," replied Beltran. "As for Sheridan—he amuses us because his satires suit us so well still, and his-cbaracters are our own people disguised in wig and powder Our society is artificial, passionleas, insincere. So is his. He is a mirror in which we see our own faces; it is the costume only that differs."

Looking forward to reading him again at some point!😊

Details Books As The School for Scandal

Original Title:	The School for Scandal: A Comedy
ISBN:	1420927159 (ISBN13: 9781420927153)
Edition Language:	English

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What a read this turned out to be! Surely the title and genre of plays will give someone a thought as to what it'll be about, but surprise, surprise! It was not only not what I expected, but it was BETTER! Better beyond what I long expected out of this time, having been privy to some of the humorous, scandalous plays and poetic works of the earlier half of the 18th Century. But nay! This play outdoes them all by a score of fields! It is not mere humor at the situation, but it is the total

Although written 100 years later, this is a very typical Restoration drama: mistaken identities, love triangles, characters hiding behind screens, etc.. Devoid of wit, though, this can best be compared to a modern day soap opera.

John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson-1963.

I read this play 45 years ago for an undergraduate survery course for which its role was to represent Restoration Comedies. I only remembered having done it last week when I was reading Antonia Fraser's sublime biography of Charles II. If I had not been familiar with Sheridan, I would have had a great deal of trouble following Fraser's discussion of the era in which Charles II the ruled.This simply proves that the benefits of reading good literature often arrive after a very long gestation. On

This was on my book list for English Lit in college. It was one of the few texts I kept through the years. I was already heavily into reading Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, and so Richard Sheridan's comedy of manners fit right in.

I found Wycherley's Country Wife to be better, and also more teachable for my mostly femaletwo-year college students. Perhaps the earlier, Moliere-influenced Restoration plays reflect betterthe initial dynamics of country Whig versus Court Tory, which lasted over a century.Fascinating that Sheridan was performed during the American Revolution, around the time Johnsonwas completing his first English Dictionary in his house still there near the 17C Cheshire Cheese puboff Fleet Street.

I often find myself idealizing 18th century Britain as a place where every single person was erudite, witty, and genteel all the time. That'll happen to you if you sit around languishing over Pope, Swift, Gay, Johnson, and others of their ilk all day, as I do (As Horace said, "Oh, if only the earth in its earlier years had given me birth to live among those heroes!"... or something like that). I need books like this to remind me that the majority of people, particularly in high society, have