William Congreve

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Standard Name: Congreve, William

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Intertextuality and Influence Eavan Boland
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 ...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Bury
Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint.
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Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
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...
Literary responses Frances, Lady Norton
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...
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.
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Literary responses Enid Bagnold
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...
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...
Occupation Charlotte Lennox
CL acted Almeria in Congreve 's The Mourning Bride at the Haymarket ; the performance was a benefit night for her.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 177
Occupation Charlotte Lennox
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...
Occupation Sarah Gardner
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 .
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 463
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
Reception Elizabeth Inchbald
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 London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Textual Features Susanna Centlivre
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...
Textual Features Judith Drake
Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic]
Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, http://U of A, Special Collections.
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with men—may stem from its anonymity. It is also interesting as literary criticism, notably on Dryden , Wycherley , Congreve , and Locke
Textual Features Margaret Holford
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

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