The school for scandal, a comedy, in five acts. - Couverture souple

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 117043701X ISBN 13 : 9781170437018

Editeur : Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010

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British Library

T060220

Anonymous. By Richard B. B. Sheridan.

Dublin: printed for the booksellers, 1800. 72p., plate; 12°

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Lbc Scbool for Scan Oal was then one ot the gayest cities in the British kingdom. In that brilliant city and in that opulent, insincere, tattling, backbiting society intermittently, but most of the time he lived during the perilous years of his youth, from 1770 to 1776 :there he loved and won for a wife the beautiful Eliza lyinley eloping with her to France, and fighting duels in her defence when he came back ;there he wrote The Rivals and The Duenna, and there he planned and partly executed The School for Scandal. Into The Rivals he wrought much of his own personal experience, duly and artistically modified and veiled. Into The School for Scandal he wrought the results of his observation working in a manner essentially natural to his order of mind, yet one that was to some extent guided and impelled by the study of Ktherege, Wycherley, Farquhar, Vanbrugh, and Congreve, who are his intellectual ancestors. There is more freedom, more freshness of impulse, more kindness, more joy, more nature in The Rivals than there is in The School for Scandal ;but both are artificial ;both reflect, in a mirror of artistic exaggeration, the hollow, feverish, ceremonious, bespangled, glittering, heart-breaking fashionable world, in which their authors mind was developed and in which they were created. The School for Scandal, indeed, is completely saturated with artificiality, and the fact that it was intended to satirize and rebuke the faults of an insincere, scandal-mongering society, does not and was not meant to modify that pervasive and predominant element of its character.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 117043701X
• ISBN 13: 9781170437018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 86
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