The introduction to this edition clarifies the playwright's and his characters' highly intricate plotting and argues that the key metaphor of the play is card-playing, in which fortune, cunning, concealment and a high trump drawn from the ...

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This early work, written when he was about 17 years of age, gained him recognition among men of letters and an entrance into the literary world.

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.

William Congreve's 'The Mourning Bride' is a tragedy play suitable for the Restoration theater of the late 17th century.

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