{"id":54,"date":"2008-08-04T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/2008\/08\/04\/the-school-for-scandal-is-featured-book-for-august\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:57:02","slug":"the-school-for-scandal-is-featured-book-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2008\/08\/04\/the-school-for-scandal-is-featured-book-for-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The School for Scandal is Featured Book for August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First produced in 1777 in London&#8217;s Drury Lane Theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan&#8217;s &#8220;The School for Scandal&#8221; is a rollicking British social farce filled with manners, mischief and marital mayhem. It is the story of Sir Oliver Surface and his two ne&#8217;er do well nephews Joseph and Surface joined by a cast of characters including Sir Peter Teazle and his wife, Lady Teazle and a group of gossips led by Lady Sneerwell.<br \/>\nThe play remains a crowd pleaser and is performed to this day. Binghamton University&#8217;s Special Collections holds a beautiful rendition of the play published in London by Hodder &amp; Stoughton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, the text is accompanied by a number of colored plates which brilliantly illustrate the play&#8217;s characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First produced in 1777 in London&#8217;s Drury Lane Theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan&#8217;s &#8220;The School for Scandal&#8221; is a rollicking British social farce filled with manners, mischief and marital mayhem. It is the story of Sir Oliver Surface and his two ne&#8217;er do well nephews Joseph and Surface joined by a cast of characters including Sir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}