2014 Reading List

• A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
• Illiad - Homer
• Shadows and Images - Meriol Trevor
• Short Stories - Henry Lawson
• Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
• Anabasis - Xenophon (excerpt)
• Plutarch Lives
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Josef Pieper - Matt Anger
• Charles Dickens - G.K.Chesterton
• The Secret Lives of Buildings - Edward Hollis
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• J.B.Powers

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

by Richard Sheridan

Discussion Questions:

1. Is there a difference between gossiping and scandal-mongering?

2. What part does motive play? Consider Lady Candor and Lady Sneerwell.

3. Subject matter: fact or fiction? First or second-hand information? Naming names?

4.Consider these professionals and their boundaries: journalists, detectives, doctors, lawyers, confessors.

5. Are men and women equally tempted to scandal-mongering? How do we feel about the men in this play?

6. What part does idleness play in these characters, both men and women?

7. Reputations: who has more to lose?

8. What part does natural curiosity play?

9. Gossip disguised as a prayer request; are we guilty?