Bracegirdle. This makes a brilliant start with the première on April 30 of William Congreve's comedy Love for Love, at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Antoine...

upbringing fell to his mother. He was placed with a schoolmaster named Congreve, near Derby, and afterwards with another named Breary. On leaving school...

clerkship. His flair for quoting scripture yielded to radical rhetoric under the influence of his tutor Richard Congreve, a covert disciple of Auguste Comte's...

of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich with a revival of William Congreve's The Way of the World. December 13 – The first issue of Then Swänska...

All Flesh by Samuel Butler The Way of the World and Other Plays by William Congreve The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck...

Newton: Principia* Gilbert Burnet: History of His Own Time William Wycherley: plays William Congreve Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, The Tale of a Tub;...

Manners (founded in 1692). When Jeremy Collier attacked playwrights like Congreve and Vanbrugh in his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the...

of Holy Scripture here then received, and that the Church of England had it so long agoe in her mother-tongue. by English antiquary William L'Isle(1569–1637)...

wave of Restoration comedy in the 1690s, the "softer" comedies of William Congreve and John Vanbrugh set out to appeal to more socially diverse audience...

Williams Volpone – by Ben Jonson Richard III – by William Shakespeare The Way of the World – by William Congreve The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov The Caucasian...