The Way Of The World And Other Plays
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The Way Of The World
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-04-27
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-27 with Drama categories.
Greatest of all Restoration comedies depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. Delicious verbal battles of the sexes, exceptional depths of feeling and sensitivity.
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-20
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-20 with Drama categories.
"The Way of the World" is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. The play premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Today, it is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally performed. The play tells the tale of two lovers, Mirabell and Millamant, craving to get the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Yet Lady Wishfort has other plans for her niece's future.
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-04-03
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-03 with categories.
Mirabell and Millamant want to get married. To order to get married and get Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort.
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-04-27
The Way Of The World And Other Plays written by William Congreve and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with Drama categories.
With piercing accuracy William ongreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of 'society' where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversation--and money--eased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisation--Lady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and Millamant--Congreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and suggested that behind the glinting mirror lay something more brutal. 'The language is everywhere that of Men of Honour, but their Actions are those of Knaves; a proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human Nature, and frequented what we call polite company.' --Voltaire 'Congreve quitted the stage in disdain, and comedy left it with him.' --A contemporary
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with English drama categories.
The play is centered on the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant .... In order for them to marry and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort. Unfortunately, Lady Wishfort is a very bitter lady who despises Mirabell and wants her own nephew, Sir Wilfull, to wed Millamant. -- Wikipedia
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Author : Congreve
language : en
Publisher: Al Manhal
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Way Of The World written by Congreve and has been published by Al Manhal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Fiction categories.
``In 1700, when The Way of the World was performed on the English stage at Lincoln's Inn Fields (a new theatre that William Congreve managed), it was not a popular success. This was the last play Congreve was to write, perhaps for that reason. Since that time, however, this play has come to be regarded not only as Congreve's masterpiece, but as a classic example of the Comedy of Manners. The play is aptly named for two reasons. First, its action takes place in the ````present,```` which means it reflects the same social period during which the play was originally performed. Second, as a comedy of manners, its purpose is to expose to public scrutiny and laughter the often absurd yet very human passions and follies that characterize social behavior. It therefore transcends its time by holding a mirror to the fashionable world in all of its frivolity and confusion while posing something more precious and sensible as an antidote. As with all comedies of this type, the principle comic material consists of sexual relations and confrontations. Marriages are made for the sake of convenience and tolerated within precise social limits. Affairs are conventional, jealousies abound, lovers are coy, and gallantry is contrived. Dowries are the coin of the marriage realm and therefore they are of central concern in all contracts and adulterous intrigues. Congreve makes clear that the general way of the world may be funny but it is not particularly nice. In the way of all romantic comedies the ````marriage of true minds```` is finally achieved, but humiliation, cruelty, and villainy are the means by which the action goes forward. His comedy is not intended to remedy the world, of course, but to offer an insightful and amusing view of both its seedy and sympathetic aspects.``
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1776
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Release Date : 2015-04-23
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William Congreve was an English playwright and poet in the late 17th century. Congreve's most famous play was The Way of the World.
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: Standard Publications Incorporated
Release Date : 2007-12
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by Standard Publications Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12 with Drama categories.
A comedy of manners by William Congreve, was performed and published in 1700. The play, considered to be Congreve's masterpiece, ridicules assumptions that governed the society of his time, especially those concerning love and marriage. The plot centers around the efforts of lovers Millamant and Mirabell to obtain the permission of Millamant's aunt for their marriage. Despite a scheme that goes awry and after several misunderstandings are cleared up, the two finally obtain her consent.