The School for Scandal (Act I), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

<p>The painted lips of the eighteenth century ladies and gallants vied with one another in whispering scathing gossip, in gleefully furthering the destruction of a good name. Sheridan depicts this gay world with a brilliant spicy pen. (Volume 18, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>Sheridan buried in Westminster Abbey, July 7, 1816.</p>