Dimensions
129 x 198 x 12mm
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is arguably the only comic dramatist, apart from Shakespeare, who has succeeded in pleasing changing audiences for more than two hundred years.
In 'The School For Scandal' he produced a comedy Shakespearean in range, if differing in its components. Its artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience; but at times it engages them with moments of human pain and happiness, before delivering them back to its brilliant comedy. The remarkable poise with which Sheridan holds these various elements together has seen the play consistently hailed as the comic masterpiece of the century.
This entirely new edition, prepared for the 'New Mermaids' series by Professor Ann Blake, reappraises and gives full vale to this classic work of comedy.
