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WILLIAM CONGREVE This article was originally published in Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Volume VI . Algernon Charles Swinburne. Cambridge: University Press, 1910. p. 938-9. Purchase Plays by William Congreve CONGREVE, WILLIAM The Old Bachelor , under the generous auspices of Dryden , then as ever a living and immortal witness to the falsehood of the vulgar charges which taxes the greater among poets with jealousy or envy, the natural badge and brand of the smallest that would claim a place among their kind. The dis-crowned laureate had never, he said, seen such a first play; and indeed the graceless grace of the dialogue was as yet only to by matched by the last and best work of Etherege , standing as till then it had done alone among the barefaced brutalities of Wycherley and Shadwell. The types of Congreve's first work were the common conventional properties of stage tradition; but the fine and clear-cut style in which these types were reproduced was his own. The gift of one place and the reversion of another were the solid fruits of his splendid success. Next year a better play from the same hand met with a worse fortune on the stage, and with yet higher honour from the first living poet of his nation. The noble verses, as faultless in the expression as reckless in the extravagance of their applause, prefixed by Dryden to

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William Congreve English playwright and poet. Born in Bardsey, England (near Leeds), Congreve was educated in the law at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; there he met Jonathan Swift , who would be his friend for the remainder of his life. Upon graduation, he became a disciple of John Dryden , William Congreve wrote some of the most popular English plays of the late 17th and very early 18th centuries. By the age of thirty, he had written several notable plays, including 1700's The Way of the World . Unfortunately, his career ended almost as soon as it began. After writing five plays from his first in 1693 until 1700, he produced no more as public tastes turned against the sort of high-brow sexual comedy of manners in which he specialized. He reportedly was particularly stung by a critique written by Jeremy Collier ( A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage ), to the point that he wrote a long reply, "Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations". In any case, he withdrew from the theatre and lived the rest of his life on residuals from his early work. His output from 1700 was restricted to the occasional poem and some translation (notably Molière 's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ). Congreve died in a London carriage accident in 1729, and was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. Two of Congreve's turns of phrase have entered the English language. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" is from Act I, Scene I of his play

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William Congreve (1670-1729) : Library of Congress Citations The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations LC Online Catalog Amazon Search Book Citations [First 20 Records] Author: Van Voris, W. H. Title: The cultivated stance; the designs of Congreve's plays [by] W. H. Van Voris. Published: [Chester Springs, Pa.] Dufour Editions [1967] Description: 186 p. port. 23 cm. LC Call No.: PR3367 .V3 1967 Dewey No.: 822/.4 Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 169-186) Subjects: Congreve, William, 1670-1729 Criticism and interpretation. English drama (Comedy) History and criticism. Control No.: 66015453 //r95 Author: Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Title: Love for love, edited by Emmett L. Avery. Published: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [c1966] Description: xvii, 147 p. 21 cm. Series: Regents Restoration drama series LC Call No.: PR3364 .L7 1966 Dewey No.: 822/.4 Subjects: English drama Restoration, 1660-1700. Comedies. gsafd Other authors: Avery, Emmett Langdon, 1903- ed. Control No.: 66020827 //r962 Author: Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Title: Incognita, and, The way of the world; edited by A. Norman Jeffares. Published: London, Edward Arnold, 1966. Description: 192 p. facsims. 20 cm. Series: Arnold's English texts LC Call No.: PR3364 .I5 1966 Dewey No.: 822.4 Notes: Bibliography: p. 190-192. Subjects: Comedies. gsafd Other authors: Jeffares, A. Norman (Alexander Norman), 1920- ed. Other titles: Way of the world. Control No.: 66077778 //r953

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William Congreve Born on January 24, 1670, William Congreve was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Middle Temple where he studied law. His literary apprenticeship was served under the tutelage of John Dryden, the leading playwright of the day. Congreve's first play, The Old Bachelor (1693) was an enormous success when it was produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Dryden wrote that he had never read so brilliant a first play. Congreve's next effort, however, was not so successful. The Double-Dealer (1693) revolves around a socialite who deceives everyone with the simple device of telling the plain truth. Although most modern critics consider The Double-Dealer an improvement over Congreve's first play, it was snubbed by critics and audiences alike. Congreve was irritated by what he perceived as the obtuseness of the public. Love for Love (1695) returned Congreve temporarily to the public favor, and his reputation improved still further with the production of his only tragedy, The Mourning Bride , in 1697. But Congreve's masterpiece was still to come.

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