Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: “Guy Pollock answered with disconcerting readiness, "I'll tell you: since we're going to try to do something artistic, and not simply fool around, I believe we ought to give something classic. How about 'The School for Scandal'?"”
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: “The Churches...befriended the spendthrift playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of The School for Scandal, who once refused to satisfy his creditors on the grounds that “paying only encourages them.””
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “The first play he saw, on May 11, 1789, was his all-time satirical favorite, William Sheridan’s The School for Scandal.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, were joined in later rimes by Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest”
The Facts by Philip Roth: “student productions of Oedipus Rex, School for Scandal, and Death of a Salesman”