The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1408145049

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Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and married a much younger wife in the hope that she will be too innocent to cross him. In fact, Lady Teazle spends her time with Lady Sneerwell and the worst set of scandalmongers in town, who have a beady eye on Charles Surface, the reckless young libertine, in expectation of seeing him ruined. Charles, however, turns out to possess the sterling virtues of generosity and loyalty to friends and family; and it is his hypocritical brother Joseph who ends up the villain of the piece. This edition discusses Sheridan's earlier drafts for the play and sets it into its theatrical context of anti-sentimentalism and its social context of the London High Society in which Sheridan had begun to move.

English Literature, Volume 1
English Literature, Volume 1

Author: Louis A. Landa

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1400877326

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This is the first of two volumes which will make available in convenient form the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published for the past 25 years in the Philological Quarterly. Volume 1 includes the years 1926-1938. By means of lithography the original issues are exactly reproduced with retention of all critical annotations. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Anthology of Magazine Verse
Anthology of Magazine Verse

Author: William Stanley Braithwaite

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13:

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Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."

English Association Bulletin
English Association Bulletin

Author: English Association

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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Bibliographies of English language and literature, lists of new members of the association, and lists of publications of the association are included.