William Congreve

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Standard Name: Congreve, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Catharine Trotter
During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham , but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley . She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers (who wrote poetry herself). She...
Performance of text Catharine Trotter
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
Literary responses Catharine Trotter
This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon .
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
406-7
Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...
Intertextuality and Influence Catharine Trotter
She had been working on it for two years, and saw it as an attempt to reform the stage.
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang.
49, 61
Congreve sent her detailed suggestions for revision, which sought to improve not her literary...
Intertextuality and Influence Catharine Trotter
The negative influence of CT 's marriage on her career was very considerable. Years later, in a letter significantly addressed to the greatest writer of the age (that is Alexander Pope ), which it seems...
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
Biographer Anne Kelley mentions particularly among CT ' other poems her congratulatory To Mr. Congreve , on his Tragedy, The Mourning Bride (which was unfortunately too late to be published with Congreve's play) and a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Tollet
The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
51
ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Tollet
His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton (a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve and Alexander Pope
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press.
186
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
210
Literary responses Mary Pix
MP , again with Trotter , was attacked in Animadversions on Mr. Congreve 's Late Answer to Mr. Collier, probably by George Powell .
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
413
Friends, Associates Mary Pix
MP 's wide circle of friends included her fellow female playwrights Delarivier Manley , Catharine Trotter , and Susanna Centlivre , as well as the poet Sarah Fyge and actresses Elizabeth Barry and Susannah Verbruggen
Textual Production Mary Pix
It was published the same year.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
2: 93
The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xv
, No. 4, pp. 292-9.
297
implies that...
Friends, Associates Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and...
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Throughout the 1720 LMWM regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough , William Congreve ...
Textual Production Charlotte McCarthy
The title-page has a couplet from Congreve about the reward of virtue.

Timeline

January 1692-October 1694: Peter Anthony Motteux edited The Gentleman's...

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January 1692-October 1694

Peter Anthony Motteux edited The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany, which combined aspects of the almanac and the periodical, and aimed particularly at women readers.

30 April 1695: Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry, and Anne...

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30 April 1695

Thomas Betterton , Elizabeth Barry , and Anne Bracegirdle gave the first performance of their breakaway Actors' Company , premiering Congreve 's Love for Love.

Probably 5 March 1700: William Congreve's last play, the comedy...

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Probably 5 March 1700

William Congreve 's last play, the comedy The Way of the World, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields .

December 1704: Vanbrugh and Congreve were licensed to operate...

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December 1704

Vanbrugh and Congreve were licensed to operate a new theatre, the Haymarket , on the grounds that they would help reform and clean up the stage.

7 April 1709: On a benefit night for the septagenarian...

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7 April 1709

On a benefit night for the septagenarian actor Thomas Betterton , he acted a role he had created, the young hero of Congreve 's Love for Love; Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle emerged from...

Texts

Congreve, William. “Chronology”. The Way of the World, edited by Kathleen M. Lynch, University of Nebraska Press, 1965, pp. 126-36.
Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press, 1971.