William Congreve

It does include a fragment from verse play, Femininity and Freedom. It concludes with two poems about the peace process in Northern Ireland. The last, Irish Poetry, written for Michael Hartnett ...

Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...

This novel made the best-seller list the month after publication; but at the end of the year it received the Bookseller's Glass Slipper award for books whose sales had not reflected their quality. Reviewers...

MP , again with Trotter , was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve 's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell .

The reception of this volume, dictated by Gethin's position as her father's only child and heir, and as an exemplary pattern of female excellence, rather than by consideration of the literary quality of her work...

This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon . Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...

The play was a success with London audiences and critics. In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan claimed that the West End Theatre justified its existence with this production of the finest artificial comedy to have...

Sarah Cheney (later SG ) made her first appearance on the London stage, before her marriage, as Congreve 's Miss Prue in Love for Love: A Comedy at Drury Lane .

CL acted Almeria in Congreve 's The Mourning Bride at the Haymarket ; the performance was a benefit night for her.

This seems to have been the first of her few and scattered stage appearances. She played at Richmond in 1748 and at the Little Theatre, Haymarket , as Almeria, heroine of Congreve 's The Mourning...

There was no author's name on the title-page, but the dedication was signed in full. It had opened about a month earlier (scholars differ over the precise date) at Congreve 's theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields

EI 's two-act farce The Hue and Cry appeared as an afterpiece to Congreve 's Love for Love in 1791, but was never performed again.

The villain here is the heroine's father, Sir Philip Moneylove. His daughter runs away from home to avoid a forced marriage, calls herself Miranda, and in a gender-reversed echo of Congreve 's The Way of...

Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] with men—may stem from its anonymity. It is also interesting as literary criticism, notably on Dryden , Wycherley , Congreve , and Locke

The prologue maintains that good men are still there to be found; the epilogue says wit is extinct in the male line and survives in ladies only. The play has an old-fashioned flavour of Congreve