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Three Restoration Comedies

AvGeorge Etherege,William Congrevem. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

168 kr

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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 morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up a mirror to this dazzling era and satirize the gulf between appearances and reality. In Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), the womanizing Dorimant meets his match when he falls in love with the unpretentious Harriet, while Wycherley's The Country Wife (c. 1675) depicts the rakish Horner who fakes impotence to fool trusting husbands into giving him easy access to their wives. And in Congreve's Love for Love (1695), the extravagant Valentine can only win his beloved Angelica if he loses his inheritance.

The Comedies of William Congreve

The Old Batchelour, Love for Love, The Double Dealer, The Way of the World

AvWilliam Congreve,Anthony G. Henderson

Häftad, Engelska, 1982

730 kr

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The career of William Congreve as comic dramatist was brief but highly successful. From the beginning he showed a useful knack for cultivating influential literary friends and for giving audiences what they were sure to like. Early in 1693, his first comedy, The Old Batchelour, pleased the public at Drury Lane, and critics hailed the appearance of a new talent in the theatre who gave a sharp edge to the theatrical conventions at the time. Much was expected of Congreve's second offering, The Double Dealer, mounted later the same year. Its surprisingly bitter tone disconcerted many listeners, however, and the play drew only moderate praise. But this setback proved temporary, and Congreve found his reputation regained with Love for Love, and in 1700 his finest comedy of manners The Way of the World. After this he wrote no more comedies. Aware of changing tastes in his audience, and annoyed by critical squabbles over the question of morality in his plays, he retired at the age of thirty to the life of a gentleman of leisure.

Love for Love

AvWilliam Congreve,Malcolm Kelsall

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

181 kr

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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 manifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences so enjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To avoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an 'antic disposition' and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him, provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry his father. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, has meanwhile found the girl of his heart

Way of the World

AvWilliam Congreve,Kathleen M. Lynch

Häftad, Engelska, 1965

165 kr

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"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. His cleverness must overcome his own foolishness as he tries to extricate himself from one affair in order to pursue another. His new passion is inspired by Mrs. Millimant, who confides, "I love to give pain."First performed in 1700, The Way of the World has since earned a reputation as a play for connoisseurs, a satire whose every word pricks or scratches. Its portrayal of the petty intrigues and duplicity of genteel society spares neither coquette nor rascal.

William Congreve – författare

Three Restoration Comedies

The Comedies of William Congreve

Love for Love

Way of the World

Collected Works of William Congreve

Collected Works of William Congreve

Mourning Bride

Mourning Bride

Poems Upon Several Occasions

Poems Upon Several Occasions

Works of Mr. Congreve

Works of Mr. Congreve

Mourning Bride. a Tragedy

Mourning Bride. a Tragedy

Love For Love

Way Of The World

Way of the World

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Comedies of William Congreve; Volume I

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Love For Love

Way of the World

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Way Of The World

Comedies of William Congreve; Volume I

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Description of the Sights