# Wit and Satire in The School for Scandal

> Theme guide for The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The play uses sharp, epigrammatic dialogue and comedic situations to satirize the manners of fashionable London society, particularly the art of scandal-mongering and the pretensions of sentimental morality.

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