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