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… on the first night of The School for Scandal, returning from Lincoln’s Inn, about nine o’clock, and passing through the Pit passage, from Vinegar-yard to Brydges Street, I heard such a tremendous noise over my head, that, fearing the Theatre was proceeding to fall about it, I ran for my life; but found, the next morning, that the noise did not arise from the falling of the house, but from the falling of the screen, in the fourth act; so violent, and so tumultuous were the applause and laughter.
Frederic Reynolds, Life and Times (London, 1826) i, 110. Editor’s title.
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Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841), English dramatist, records the success of The School for Scandal, which was produced at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777.
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Reynolds, F. (1989). The School for Scandal. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Sheridan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20441-0_16
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