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Love for Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Love for Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-13
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

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

Love for love. The mourning bride
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Love for love. The mourning bride

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1753
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Plays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 520

Plays

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1733
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Love for Love. A Comedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Love for Love. A Comedy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1747
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Comedy of the Conscious Lovers with the Life of the Authors and a Critique by Richard Cumberland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426
The New English Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

The New English Theatre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1787
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Love for Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Love for Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1791
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1765
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Works of Mr. William Congreve: in three volumes ... The fifth edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Works of Mr. William Congreve: in three volumes ... The fifth edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1773
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Works of Mr. Congreve ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

The Works of Mr. Congreve ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1788
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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