Sheridan's The School For Scandal in the Context of Sentimental Comedy and Restoration Comedy
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Sheridans The School For Scandal in the Context of Sentimental Comedy and Restoration Comedy Schriftliche Hausarbeit für den Kurs: The Literature of Sensibility from Richard Steele to Jane Austen vorgelegt von: , 11. Februar 2012 Herr Prof. Dr. Niederhoff Table of Contents 1. Introduction .3 2. Sentimental Comedy and its evil sibling, the Restoration Comedy – an overview . 4 3. The School for Scandal – a Sentimental Comedy? . 8 4. Conclusion 15 5. List of Works Cited . .17 6. Declaration of Authenticity . . . . 18 1. Introduction The scope of this paper is to conduct a literary analysis of the late 18th century play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, called The School for Scandal. The play deals with topics such as hypocrisy and gossip in the higher class society of London in the 1770s and depicts the aristocracys affectation…[show more]