William Congreve

acted actors Almeria Angelica anonymous appeared audience ballad Bellmour Betterton Biographia Britannica Bracegirdle British Museum characters Charles Charles Gildon Cibber Collier comedy of manners comic Congreve wrote Congreve's critics Curll death Defence Double Dealer drama dramatist Drury Lane Dryden edition Edward Filmer English Stage Etherege expression Fainall fame favour Gildon gout greve humour Jacob Tonson Jeremy Collier John King Lady Wishfort later letter to Keally Lincoln's-Inn-Fields literary London Gazette Lord Love for Love married Maskwell Millamant Mirabell Miscellany Miss Prue Montague moral Mourning Bride natural never Old Batchelor opera passage performed play plot poems Poetical Poets Pope popular praise printed profaneness prologue published Queen reply Restoration comedy ridiculous satire says scene Short View Sir Sampson Steele success Swift Tatler theatre thought tion Touchwood town tragedy translation Valentine Vanbrugh verse vols Walter Moyle wife William Congreve witty Witwoud writing written Wycherley Zara