The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

16 chapters · about 2 h

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The opening

SCENE I.

LADY SNEERWELL’S House

LADY SNEERWELL at her dressing table with LAPPET; MISS VERJUICE drinking chocolate

LADY SNEERWELL. The Paragraphs you say were all inserted:

VERJUICE. They were Madam—and as I copied them myself in a feigned Hand there can be no suspicion whence they came.

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The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The source library's header, footer and license, in 4 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 6 places
  • The play's repeated title line; the app supplies the title
  • Notes about a stage production
  • Other material that isn't the author's
  • The act heading is recorded in the scene chapter's part field (5 blocks)
  • The dash joining the scene number to its setting; the setting follows separately
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 2 places
  • Act-ending label, not part of the play's text
  • Colman's separately credited epilogue is not Sheridan's text; source headings: 'EPILOGUE' and 'BY MR. COLMAN'
  • Closing label 'END OF PLAY' is omitted by house style