Author: William Congreve

‘One no more owes one’s beauty to a lover, than one’s wit to an echo.’ With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the republican ban on organis...

"A woman who is not a fool can have but one reason for associating with a man that is," says Mirabell, the amorous hero of The Way of the World. Hi...

With piercing accuracy William ongreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of 'society' where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversati...

Hero longing for heiress. Obstacles in the way. Marriage eventually secured. It sounds simple. But the lasting appeal of this, one of the most perf...

More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is now accounted Congreve's best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farce manifest...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic comedy of manners from the Restoration period. Mirabell loves the heire...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict mor...