With subtitles (and footnotes!)
July 1– Act 1 of The School For Scandal (1877) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Summary: Snake Supports Scheming Sneerwell Starting Scandals
Commentary: Another day, another Act 1 after we've already seen another part. The one I used last time was taken off Youtube, which is a shame. This production seems passable, but I really like the subtitling, which includes notes on the Georgian slang, etc. It runs a little fast, but it's a cool idea.
All in all, probably an amusing play if we watched the whole thing. It seems almost satirical, as a spoof of a manners play about a manners play or something, but I think at the time it was probably a more sincere comedy. That might be splitting hairs though.
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