In The School for Scandal, Sheridan's artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience, but at times it engages them with moments of human pain and happiness, before delivering them back to its comedy.
A classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
"These two comedies, about 'novel-reading girls gone wild, ' make for an inspired pairing; in this edition, David A. Brewer makes the pairing pay off handsomely." -- Stuart Sherman, Fordham University