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The School for Scandal and Other Plays
by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 014043240X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140432404
- Seller
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New Braunfels, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Viking Press, 1989. Soft Cover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight/ covers slightly scuffed and creased; moderate edge wear/ several pages have underlining and margin notes/ corners and spine creased/ a few page tips creased
Synopsis
"His Comic Muse does not go about prying into obscure corners, or collecting idle curiosities, but shows her laughing face, and points to her rich treasure—the follies of mankind" Thus wrote William Hazlitt of Sheridan, whom he thought shone 'like Hesperus' among the comic writers of the eighteenth century. As a playwright Sheridan had a brief but brilliant career, and between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-eight he wrote two of the funniest plays in our literature, The Rivals and The School for Scandal , and a wonderful farce, The Critic . Ingenious plots, agile and eloquent wit, and an unerring eye for the comic situation characterize Sheridan's drama. Never an insistent moralist, he delighted in deflating hypocrisy and in satirizing the manners of his age. As Eric Ramp writes in the Introduction, while Sheridan was no great innovator, "the three comedies by which he is now known are in many ways the best that Georgian theatre has to offer and they are comedies which, over the last two hundred years, have added much, as Dr Johnson said about Garrick, to 'the gaiety of nations'".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010316
- Title
- The School for Scandal and Other Plays
- Author
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014043240X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140432404
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Product_type
- 2
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Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
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New Braunfels, Texas
About Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar is a family owned and operated on-line bookstore. We are building a small non-conventional farm in the Texas Hill Country. We operate our bookstore out of a small outbuilding. Our books are located by searching every garage sale and thrift store, that we can, in over seven counties. We love the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of placing one person's unwanted book in the hands of someone who needs it (it also helps pay for the books we get to keep for ourselves).
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