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The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
de Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 014043240X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140432404
- Librería
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Penguin Classics. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Sinopsis
"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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- Librería
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- F05B-03181
- Título
- The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
- Autor
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 014043240X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140432404
- Editorial
- Penguin Classics
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- March 7, 1989
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