Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Marriage in May Fair, or the Comedy of Real Life: In Five Acts
See Note at the end of the Play.an anecdote apropos to this point. It is related of one of the small wits of Sheridan's day, Jekyll, that, on first seeing the School for Scanda performed, at the end of the third Act he turned to a friend beside him, and said, When will these ladies and gentlemen leave off talking and begin the Play?
Now, considering that the comedy at which this hiss by implication was pointed was at that time, and remains to this day, the most successful acting Play that was ever put upon the modern Stage, the validity of the above criticism seems more than questionable.
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