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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. This edition discusses Sheridan's earlier
drafts for the play and sets it into its theatrical context of
anti-sentimentalism and its social context of the London High
Society in which Sheridan had begun to move.
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