The School for Scandal
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About This Book
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL is a modern, updated adaptation of the classic English comedy The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan which dates from 1777. The adaptation stays true to his intent, and retained the feel of his language, the adaptation is a work for the stage, not a work of scholarship. Enough liberty with the structure, plot, characters, and language that this is not a new edition of The School for Scandal. Rather, it is a new work, based in a collaboration across 237 years. This adaptation brings the play into the 21st Century by modernizing story telling techniques, replacing...
Chapters (28)
- THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
- A COMEDY A PORTRAIT1
- THE TEXT OF THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
- THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
- ADDRESSED TO MRS. CREWE, WITH THE COMEDY OF THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
- PROLOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. GARRICK
- ACT I
- SCENE I.—LADY SNEERWELL'S House
- SCENE II.—SIR PETER'S House
- ACT II
- SCENE I.—SIR PETER and LADY TEAZLE
- SIR PETER. Lady Teazle—Lady Teazle I'll not bear it.
- SCENE II.—At LADY SNEERWELL'S
- SCENE III.—At SIR PETER'S
- ACT III
- SCENE I.—At SIR PETER'S
- SCENE II.—At CHARLES's House
- SCENE III.—CHARLES, CARELESS, etc., etc.
- ACT IV
- SCENE I.—A Picture Room in CHARLES SURFACE'S House
- SCENE II.—The Parlour
- SCENE III.—A Library
- ACT V
- SCENE I.—The Library
- SCENE II.—At SIR PETER'S House
- SCENE THE LAST.—The Library
- END OF PLAY
- FOOTNOTES:
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