The English dramatist William Congreve (1670-1729) was the most brilliant of the writers of the Restoration comedy of manners. He possessed the wit and charm of the heroes of his plays and was universally admired by his contemporaries. The Restoration...

William Congreve is, by common consent, the greatest writer of comedies in the late seventeenth century. The Way of the World (1700), above all, has come to represent the standard against which all other comedies of the period have to be measured, the...

William Congreve is, by common consent, the greatest writer of comedies in the late seventeenth century. The Way of the World, above all, has come to represent the standard against which all other comedies of the period have to be measured, the...

1772-1828 English artillery officer and scientist who invented the Congreve rocket, which saw its first action in the Napoleonic Wars. This rocket was one of the first to be fired from a ship at shore targets and was used during attacks against the...

William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and...

English playwrights in the first half of the 17th century worked to create works with artistic merit that could produce professional and popular recognition. Ben Jonson took the occasional failure of his plays as personal attacks, and at times treated his audiences with hostility....

WILLIAM CONGREVE said more than 300 years ago: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." This week those words came back to haunt National MP Tim Groser. A former wife of Groser took...