Discuss the role of two women characters in Sheridan's The School for Scandal.

I find Lady Sneerwell and Lady Teazle the two most
actively engaged women in the intriguing comic plot of Sheridan's The School
for Scandal. Both of them are typical comedy of manners personages, and both
of them possess their respective idiosyncrasies.

Lady
Sneerwell, true to her name, runs the scandal academy in her drawing room, where Lady
Teazle is a frequenter in search of urban elite fantasies. Lady Sneerwell was once upon
a time a victim of slandering, and now she happens to be the queen of scandal-mongering,
ably assisted by her servant, Snake. Lady Teazle, a simple village woman married to Sir
Peter Teazle, is the typical country wife allured by the slanderers, a victim who
finally discovers her errors to find love and trust in her husband. Lady Sneerwell goes
down to discomfiture and disclosure.