School for Scandal, The

American  

noun

1. a comedy of manners (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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Example Sentences

And consequently he will experience all the more gratitude in reaching the eighteenth century plays: The School for Scandal, The Rivals, and She Stoops to Conquer, when they came a generation later.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, is only the first of a series which includes The School for Scandal, The Importance of being Earnest, and You Never can Tell.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

Other comedies followed swiftly from his eager and inspired pen—The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and The Critic—each greeted with enthusiasm by a world to which such dramatic triumphs were a revelation and a delight.

From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Hall, Thornton

School for Scandal, The, 40, 55, 64, 86, 101, 105, 123, 132.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker