The School for Scandal (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- First Published: 1780
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Genres: Drama, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, England or English people, Eighteenth century, City life, London, Drinking or drunkenness, Money, Honor, Scandal, Libel or slander
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
Lady Sneerwell’s dressing room. Despite the fact that the stage direction indicates that the first scene of the play takes place at Lady Sneerwell’s dressing table, the room in which the scene takes place is a large room used by fashionable ladies for waiting on their most confidential guests. Thus Lady Sneerwell uses her dressing room to converse with Snake in much the same way the men of the house would use the library.
Drawing room. Other scenes in Lady Sneerwell’s house are set in the typical drawing room of a fashionable house. For example, in...
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