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Download or read book The Comedies of William Congreve written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Comedies of William Congreve written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Comedies of William Congrave written by William Congreve and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Comedies of William Congrave by William Congreve

Download or read book Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Congreve was deeply involved in the events of his turbulent times. That involvement reveals itself in works which have sometimes been regarded as entirely unengaged with the realities of his society. This book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated by the rebellion of 1688. A strong supporter of the new world ushered in by William III and Mary, Congreve fought against the reactionary politics of the Jacobite opposition.

Download or read book The way of the world written by William Congreve and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Double Dealer written by William Congreve and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Double-Dealer by William Congreve

Download or read book The Comedies of William Congreve written by William Congreve and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Comedies of William Congreve" is a collection of plays written by the English playwright William Congreve, who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Congreve is best known for his witty and satirical comedies that often satirize the manners and conventions of his time.

Download or read book Restoration Comedy written by Edward Burns and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-07-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Restoration comedy? What pleasure does it offer its audience, and what significance does it find in exploring that pleasure? Edward Burns here provides a new account of the origins and nature of Restoration comedy as a distinct genre. The book enlarges the usual focus with a wider range of writers than the conventional ossified canon taking in a revaluation of many rarely studied dramatists, a reconsideration of pastoral, and the instatement of women writers as major contributors to the culture of the age. It offers a substantial and original interpretation of one of the most intriguing of seventeenth-century literature forms.

Download or read book The Old Bachelor written by William Congreve and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he Old Bachelor is the first play written by British playwright William Congreve, produced in 1693. The 'Old Bachelor' is Heartwell, 'a surly old pretended woman-hater', who falls in love with Silvia, not knowing her to be the forsaken mistress of Vainlove, and is lured into marrying her, only discovering her true character afterwards, from the gibes of his acquaintances. The parson who has been brought in to marry them, however, is in fact Vainlove's friend Belmour, who has assumed the disguise for the purpose of an intrigue with Laetitia, the young wife of an uxorious old banker, Fondlewife; and Heartwell is relieved to discover that the marriage was a pretence. The comedy includes the amusing characters of Sir Joseph Wittol, a foolish knight, who allows himself to be really married to Silvia, under the impression that she is the wealthy Araminta; and his companion, the cowardly bully, Captain Bluffe, who under the same delusion is married to Silvia's maid. The success of this comedy was in part due to the acting of performers Thomas Betterton and Anne Bracegirdle

Download or read book The Way of the World and Other Plays written by William Congreve and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With piercing accuracy William ongreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of 'society' where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversation--and money--eased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisation--Lady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and Millamant--Congreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and suggested that behind the glinting mirror lay something more brutal. 'The language is everywhere that of Men of Honour, but their Actions are those of Knaves; a proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human Nature, and frequented what we call polite company.' --Voltaire 'Congreve quitted the stage in disdain, and comedy left it with him.' --A contemporary

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