School for Scandal
York Notes Advanced

By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Notes By Tom Rank
October 2007
Longman / Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781405861847
135 pages, 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"
$17.95 Paper Original

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Contents Include:

Part 1: Introduction
How to Study a play
Reading The School for Scandal
Part 2: The Text
Note on the text
Synopsis
Detailed Summaries
Extended Commentaries
Part 3: Critical Approaches
Characterization
Themes
Dramatic Techniques
Structure
Language and Style
Part 4: Critical History
Original Reception
Later criticism and productions
Contemporary approaches
Part Five: Background
Richard Brinsley Sheridans's life and work
Historical Background
Literary Background
Chronology



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