William Congreve
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 fro...
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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 univers...
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The luster of William Congreve's achievement as the greatest comic dramatist of the English Restoration has tended to obscure the other facets of his varied literary career as poet, critic, translator...
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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 com...
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Biography EssayWilliam 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 agai...
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William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congreve