"Which Irish dramatist wrote ""The Rivals"" and ""The School for Scandal""?"
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The School for Scandal of Miss Verjuice does). "The School for Scandal" has been widely admired. The English critic William Hazlitt was particularly effusive in his praise of Sheridan's comedies in general ("everything in them "tells"; there is no labour in vain") and of this play in particular: Edmund Gosse called the play "perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue", while Charles Lamb wrote that "This comedy grew out of Congreve and Wycherley", but criticised "sentimental incompatibilities" even while admitting that "the gaiety upon the whole is buoyant." Samuel Barber composed his first full orchestral work as an overture programmed for the play.