School for Scandal, The

noun

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

Example Sentences

“Oh, I love this play! I couldn't be in it because it was open only to seniors. Oh my gosh—I can't believe it! We have to do this! It's kind of an adaptation of another play called The School for Scandal. The setting is in a school, but also in an attic. Olivia is this girl who opens the play with the line, um...'I am missing. But I haven't gone anywhere.’

From Literature

Hood, a specially commissioned play about the famous Nottingham outlaw, will run in September and there will be performances of The School For Scandal, the first production at the theatre in 1865.

From BBC

The finalists were: "Always decent; never dull" "The news of the day; not the rubbish" "A decent newspaper for decent people" "All the world's news, but not a School for Scandal" The latter entry, Gilder determined, was the best of the lot, and the New York Times paid the prize money to the author of the phrase, DM Redfield of New Haven, Connecticut.

From BBC

Shortly after this denunciation by the governor, suddenly one night, in the midst of the performance of 'The School for Scandal,' the sheriff of the county appeared on the stage, arrested the actors, and broke up the performances.

From Project Gutenberg

"Merchant of Venice," "The Wonder," "The Honeymoon," "Masks and Faces," "London Assurance," "School for Scandal," "The Rivals," "The Lady of Lyons," "Richelieu," "Wild Oats," "The Colleen Bawn," "Arrah-na-Pogue," "The Shaughraun," "The Wife," "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Under the Gaslight," "Don C�sar de Bazan," "American Cousin," "Rip Van Winkle," and the "Black Crook," all well known and successful plays, many perhaps being acted this very night all over the Union and England.

From Project Gutenberg