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Hace 2 días · Search for: 'William Congreve' in Oxford Reference ». (1670–1729),educated at Kilkenny school and Trinity College, Dublin, at both of which he was a fellow student of Swift. He entered the Middle Temple, but soon gave up law for literature, published a novel of intrigue, Incognita (1691), and in 1693 suddenly achieved fame with his comedy ...
William Congreve, (born Jan. 24, 1670, Bardsey, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Jan. 19, 1729, London), English dramatist. He was a young protégé of John Dryden when his first major play, The Old Bachelour (1693), met with great success. Later came The Double-Dealer (1693), Love for Love (1695), and The Way of the World (1700), his ...
William Congreve a 17. századi restauráció korának legnagyszerűbb színpadi műveit írta. Harmincéves korára már négy komédiát írt a (Love for Love) és az Így él a világ (The Way of the World) és egy tragédiát (The Mourning Bride).
7 de abr. de 2011 · OUP Oxford, Apr 7, 2011 - Literary Criticism - 800 pages. The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this edition is dedicated.
Biografia. William Congreve fu un drammaturgo inglese, unanimemente considerato come il maggior autore della Commedia della Restaurazione. Nacque a Bardsey, nello Yorkshire, il giorno 24 gennaio 1670, figlio di William Congreve e Mary Browning.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 76-77. Print. Radcliffe, David H., ed. William Congreve (1670-1729). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006.
William Congreve was born at Bardsey, near Leeds, and was baptized on 10th February 1669 [1670]. The Congreves were a Staffordshire family, of an antiquity of four hundred years at the date of the poet’s birth. Richard, his grandfather, was a redoubtable Cavalier, and William, his father, an officer in the army.
