Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 'The School for Scandal' is a classic comedy of manners play that satirizes the gossip-driven society of 18th-century London.

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This edition traces both the political and the theatrical objects of Sheridan's satire and discusses its reliance (and improvement) on earlier meta-theatrical burlesques like The Duke of Buckingham's Restoration romp The Rehearsal.

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