{"product_id":"9781408145036","title":"The School for Scandal","description":"Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance\u003cbr\u003eand wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently\u003cbr\u003eperformed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial\u003cbr\u003emistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and married a much\u003cbr\u003eyounger wife in the hope that she will be too innocent to cross him. In\u003cbr\u003efact, Lady Teazle spends her time with Lady Sneerwell and the worst set\u003cbr\u003eof scandalmongers in town, who have a beady eye on Charles Surface, the\u003cbr\u003ereckless young libertine, in expectation of seeing him ruined. Charles,\u003cbr\u003ehowever, turns out to possess the sterling virtues of generosity and\u003cbr\u003eloyalty to friends and family; and it is his hypocritical brother\u003cbr\u003eJoseph who ends up the villain of the piece. This edition discusses\u003cbr\u003eSheridan's earlier drafts for the play and sets it into its theatrical\u003cbr\u003econtext of anti-sentimentalism and its social context of the London\u003cbr\u003eHigh Society in which Sheridan had begun to move.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121914593520,"sku":"9781408145036","price":12.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408145036_p0.jpg?v=1763719088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408145036","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}