... Charles Surface is about to sell a collection of family portraits to pay his debts. He points to the paintings in the portrait gallery of the eighteenth-century house where the action takes place. (Enter CHARLES SURFACE, SIR OLIVER SURFACE ...

... CHARLES SURFACE, SIR OLIVER SURFACE, MOSES, and CARELESS.) CHARLES SURFACE. Walk in, gentlemen, pray walk — here they are, the family of the in Surfaces up to the [Norman] Conquest. SIR OLIVER ( disguised as MASTER PREMIUM). And, in my ...

... Surface , Mr. C. Warner ; Charles Surface , Mr. Kendal ; Crabtree , Mr. Rignold ; Careless , Mr. F. Robertson ; Rowley , Mr. Kemble ; Moses , Mr. A. Cecil ; Snake , Mr. G. Grossmith , jun .; Trip , Mr. T. Thorne ; Sir Harry Bumper ...

... SURFACE .. CHARLES SURFACE . Mr. King . Mr. Yates . Mr. Palmer . Mr. Smith . CRABTREE .. Mr. Parsons . SIR BENJAMIN BACKBITE . Mr. Dodd . ROWLEY Mr. Aickin . MOSES . Mr. Baddeley . TRIP . SNAKE . Mr. Lamash . Mr. Packer . CARELESS ...

... the modern school , the flimsy fops who lisp and drawl , trip and amble about the stage . The Charles Surfaces of the past may be described as of the Tom Jones order of heroes : tall of their hands. " CHARLES SURFACE . ” 173.

... Charles Surface , who has the reputation of being an extravagant libertine . He is in love with and is loved by Maria , who is the object of affection ( more for her money than anything else ) of Joseph Surface , Charles's brother , who ...

... Charles Surface was announced , Barrington said : " Joseph Surface says , " Sdeath , blockhead ! I'm not within . " [ Suitable action by Leslie . ] 111 Lecturer : Joseph Surface says he is " out for the day . " Observe , ladies and ...

... Charles Surface . How strikingly this actor's impersonation would throw into direct contrast the sly , deceitful purposes of Joseph Surface can be but scantily recognized in the present instance , owing to Mr. Beerbohm - Tree's ...

Edited by John Loftis, this edition of The School for Scandal for performance and study also includes an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and a selected bibliography.