by Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Longman Schools Division (a Pearson Education Company) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582253964
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«The Rivals» and «The School for Scandal» are the two comedies by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, published by Longman in paperback (328 pages, in English).
The volume brings together two comedies of eighteenth-century English theatre. In The Rivals, Captain Jack Absolute becomes his own rival in love; in The School for Scandal, a lady hidden behind a screen avoids a scandal. Gossip, lovers, fools and duels fuel a satire of manners with agile dialogue.
It belongs to the New Longman Literature 14-18 series and includes the complete text with introduction, study material and glossary.
Aimed at secondary school students (Key Stage 4 and GCSE) and readers interested in classic English theatre.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777). He served as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan died in 1816 and was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the Western canon and are frequently performed around the world.
