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	William Congreve
		Congreve died in a London carriage accident in 1729, and was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
		Born and raised in Kent, William Congreve was educated in law at Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Congreve rockets were used for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the War of 1812 -- the "rockets' red glare" in the American national anthem describes their firing at Fort McHenry during the latter conflict.
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	William Congreve (inventor) - TheBestLinks.com - Ball, Clock, England, Forge, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Congreve invented a gun-recoil mounting, a time-fuze, a rocket parachute attachment, a hydropneumatic canal lock and sluice (1813), a perpetual motion machine, a process of color printing (1821) which was widely used in Germany, a new form of steam engine, and a method of consuming smoke (which was applied at the Royal Laboratory).
		He also took out patents for a clock in which time was measured by a ball rolling on an inclined plane; for protecting buildings against fire; inlaying and combining metals; unforgeable bank note paper; a method of killing whales by means of rockets; improvements in the manufacture of gunpowder; stereotype plates; fireworks; and gas meters.
		Congreve's unsuccussful perpetual motion scheme involved an endless band which should raise more water by its capillary action on one side than on the other.
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	William Congreve (playwright) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Congreve (January 24, 1670 – January 19, 1729) was an English playwright and poet.
		He reportedly was particularly stung by a critique written by Jeremy Collier (A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage), to the point that he wrote a long reply, "Amendments of Mr.
		A member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, Congreve's career shifted to the political sector, where he held various minor political positions despite his stance as a Whig among Tories.
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	William Congreve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Congreve was born in 1670 at Bardsey, near Leeds, in Yorkshire.
		Like many at that time, Congreve was pulled in two directions, his sharp wit and facility of expression drew him to be a writer, yet writing then was hardly a profession for a gentleman, and Congreve's lively conversation and polished manners drew him to the company of men of fashion.
		Congreve became Commissioner for Hackney Coaches, Customer at Poole, Wine Licenser, Undersearcher at the Port of London, and in 1714, on the accession of George I, was appointed Secretary of Jamaica.
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	Drama: William Congreve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Congreve defended the play as a moral fable, and it was not until Queen Mary requested a command performance that the play was restored in the eyes of the public.
		Congreve was also annoyed by the rise of the new sentimental middle-class drama.
		Congreve was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, near the grave of Aphra Behn, who is buried at the entrance to the cloisters.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/congreve.htm (595 words)

	William Congreve's 'Incognita' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		William Congreve is best remembered as a playwright and the author of ‘The Way of The World.’ Born in 1670 in England, his father’s military career meant that William grew up in Ireland where he was educated alongside friend and fellow writer, Jonathan Swift.
		Although Congreve was initially set on a career in law, he gave it up for writing, and became a successful playwright (under John Dryden’s tutelage) while still in his twenties.
		According to Congreve himself, it was “an essay begun and finished in the idler hours of a fortnight’s time.” ‘Incognita’ serves as a reminder of what Congreve was capable of, and what literature lost when he abandoned his career.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/incognita.html (883 words)

	William Congreve
		He was the son of William Congreve, a soldier who was soon after his son's birth placed in command of the garrison at Youghal.
		The types of Congreve's first work were the common conventional properties of stage tradition; but the fine and clear-cut style in which these types were reproduced was his own.
		The one memorable incident of his later life was the visit of Voltaire, whom he astonished and repelled by his rejection of proffered praise and the expression of his wish to be considered merely as any other gentleman of no literary fame.
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	William Congreve - Biography and Works
		William Congreve (1670—1729), English poet and playwright of the Restoration period in the 17th and 18th centuries, his comic plays have enjoyed a distinguished place in history, including The Old Batchelor (1693), and Love for Love (1694).
		William Congreve was born in January of 1670 in Bardsey Grange, Yorkshire, England, the son of William Congreve (1637—1708) and his wife, Mary.
		While Congreve held numerous government posts over the years including Customs Collector at Poole, Commissioner for wine licences, and Undersearcher of the London port, he also had time for the study of music and won a prize for the libretto he wrote for The Judgment of Paris.
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	Playwright-Fault
		William Wycherley was born in Shropshire and studied in France and at Oxford.
		William Congreve was born in Yorkshire and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
		Later in his life Congreve was disabled by gout and poor eyesight, but before he died he was visited by Voltaire, whose praise he rejected, expressing that he wanted to be considered an ordinary man. He died on 12 January 1729.
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		For the Congreve Rocket, see William Congreve (inventor) (William Congreve (inventor): more facts about this subject).
		Born in Bardsey, England (near Leeds (Leeds: A city on the River Aire in West Yorkshire in northern England; a center of the clothing industry)), Congreve was educated in the law at Trinity College (Trinity College: the college of the holy and undivided trinity of queen elizabeth near dublin or more commonly...
		By the age of thirty, he had written several notable plays, including Love for Love (premiered April 30, 1695) and The Way of the World (The Way of the World: the way of the world is a play written by british playwright william congreve....
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	congreve - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		CONGREVES COMEDIES 13...SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 33 William Congreve was born at Bardsey, Yorkshire, in 1670...
		William Congreve was not an unpublished author when the...play quartos of 1693, however, reveal Congreves desire to present himself to fin de siecle...
		A pupil of Betterton, she was the delight of Colley Cibber and the favorite of Congreve, achieving her greatest successes as the heroines of Congreves comedies, which were written for her.
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	More info about the poet: William Congreve - references bibliography
		William Congreve was a man of comedy, known for his finely crafted dialogue and satiric comment on the behavior of the upper...
		William Congreve; Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
		William Congreve was born in England, and was educated in Dublin, Ireland.
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	Poet: William Congreve - All poems of William Congreve
		Poet: William Congreve - All poems of William Congreve
		Biography of English playwright William Congreve, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
		A biography of English dramatist, and the greatest English master of pure comedy, William Congreve.
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	Daily Celebrations ~ William Congreve, Ambition Join'd ~ April 6 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As ironic as any play he wrote, when English playwright and poet William Congreve (1670-1729) released his Way of the World (1700), the play failed terribly.
		Born to genteel society of Leeds, Congreve's other major plays included The Old Bachelor (1693), The Double-Dealer (1693), and Love for Love (1695).
		Praised by Samuel Johnson, Congreve was a wizard with comic dialogue and intricate plot twists which poked fun at his society's rules about love and marriage.
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		Colley Cibber, born 6 November 1671, died 11 December 1757, was an actor, playwright and theater manager during the late 1600s to the mid 1700s.
		Sheridan, son of the actor and elocutionist Thomas Sheridan, as well as the playwright Frances, wrote two comedies (The Rivals and The School for Scandal) and a farce (The Critic)that have held the stage since their respective first productions (in 1777, 1775, and 1779).
		But though he is remembered primarily as a playwright, in his own time he was even more famous for political eloquence, especially as a prosecutor in the celebrated trial of Warren Hastings for misconduct as governor of India.
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	William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright Englan...
		William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright Englan...
		“William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.”
		Kenneth Tynan said: "William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced;..." and:
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	Malaspina Great Books - William Congreve (1670)
		Born in Bardsey, England (near Leeds),; Congreve was educated in the law at Trinity College in Dublin,; Ireland; there he met Jonathan Swift,; who would be his friend for the remainder of his life.
		Congreve died in a London carriage accident in 1729,; and was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
		The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001).
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	MavicaNET - Congreve, William (1670-1729) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born on January 24, 1670, William Congreve was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Middle Temple where he studied law.
		His literary apprenticeship was served under the tutelage of John Dryden, the leading playwright of the day.
		Congreve's first play, The Old Bachelor (1693) was an enormous success when it was produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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	Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" (Abridged)
		He therefore made no scruple to repeat the same jests in many dialogues, or to entangle different plots by the same knot of perplexity, which may be at least forgiven him, by those who recollect, that of
		Congreve's four comedies, two are concluded by a marriage in a mask, by a deception, which perhaps never happened, and which, whether likely or not, he did not invent.
		[97] Congreve's four comedies: William Congreve (1670-1729), English playwright, and author of four popular comedies from the late seventeenth century.
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	Love for Love - William Congreve
		Congreve's literary apprenticeship was served under the tutelage of John Dryden, the leading playwright of the day.
		William Congreve only wrote five plays before retiring from writing to work in government.
		Love for Love and his other plays showed a knack for writing urbane, scintillating wit that some say rivaled Moliere's.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/1417905190/Love_for_Love.htm (72 words)

	OUP: The Works of William Congreve: McKenzie
		The late D. 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.
		During that time McKenzie uncovered new verse and letters, collated Congreve's texts, recorded their complicated textual history, constructed appendices that shed light on the dramatic context in which Congreve worked, and examined how his contemporaries received Congreve's work.
		In each case, Congreve's work is left to speak for itself, unencumbered by intrusive notes, textual apparatus, or collations, which are gathered instead near the end of each volume.
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	Alibris: William Congreve
		The play, 'Love for Love' was finished before the end of 1694, but not performed until 30 April 1695.
		Recalls Congreve's successful career and provides the texts of four comedies: The Old Batchelour, The Double Dealer, Love for Love and The Way of the World.
		Um--Ay, this, this is the very damned place; the inhuman cannibals, the bloody-minded villains, would have butchered me last night.
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	Thomas Killigrew -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		English actor, probably the son of the actor William Hart, nephew of William Shakespeare.
		The dramatist and poet Thomas Godfrey was a playwright and poet in colonial America.
		His play The Prince of Parthia is thought to be the first one written by an American and performed by a professional company.
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	William Congreve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was a well-known playwright during the Restoration Period of English Literature in the late 17th Century.
		Congreve made famous the style of the English Comedy of Manners, with humorous dialogue and satirical criticism of society.
		His first play, the immensely popular "The Old Bachelour" was written in 1693.
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	William Congreve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	The Comedies of William Congreve by William Congreve, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1417906537
		Satire in the Comedies of Congreve, Sheridan, Wild...
		Life of William Congreve (By Edmund W. Gosse)
		William Congreve: A Reference Guide (By Laurence Bartlett)
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