Presentación del día 25, por Lee y Natasha

2. Was born 24th of January, 1670
Born in Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England
Most celebrated of the Restoration comedy
writers
Playwright and poet

3. Congreve was educated at Trinity College in
Dublin; there he met Jonathan Swift

4. Artistically, he became a disciple of John Dryden, a
poet, playwright and literary critic.

5. The Old Bachelor (1693)
The Double-Dealer (1693)
“Love for Love” (1695)
The Mourning Bride (1697)
The Way of the World (1700) The most important

6. Congreve never married
He had a romance with Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd
Duchess of Marlborough

7. Afflicted with poor eyesight for most of his life
He suffered a carriage accident in 1728
William Congreve died on 19 January 1729
He is buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster
Abbey

8. Premiered in 1700
Comedy
Love
Money

9. Restored by Charles II with the English, Scottish and
Irish monarchies.
It has been forbiddened by the puritans for 18 years
The comedy has sexual explicity.

10. Irony and wit
Marrige, relationship, gossip and sex
Politic,society image

11. The characters were sharply differentiated by their
speech patterns and their wit.
The freedom of marriage for women.
Reation against the puritanism

12. It takes place in the Present.
Comedy of manners

13. I
Love's but the frailty of the mind
When 'tis not with ambition joined;
A sickly flame, which if not fed expires,
And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
II
'Tis not to wound a wanton boy
Or am'rous youth, that gives the joy;
But 'tis the glory to have pierced a swain
For whom inferior beauties sighed in vain.
III
Then I alone the conquest prize,
When I insult a rival's eyes;
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

14. Natasha Alexandra
Lee