An edition of Love for Love (1695)

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An edition of Love for Love (1695)

Love for love

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Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. To avoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an 'antic disposition' and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him, provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry his father. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, has meanwhile found the girl of his heart.

More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is now accounted Congreve's best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farce manifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences so enjoy in Congreve.

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English
Pages
147

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Cover of: Love for Love a Comedy by William Congreve
Love for Love a Comedy by William Congreve
2010-06-10, Gale ECCO, Print Editions
Cover of: Love for Love, Second Edition (New Mermaids)
Love for Love, Second Edition (New Mermaids)
August 1999, R.S. Means Company
in English
Cover of: Love for love
Love for love
1967, Macmillan, St. Martin's P.
in English
Cover of: Love for love
Love for love
1966, University of Nebraska Press
in English
Cover of: Love for love
Love for love: the play
1940, Scribner
in English
Cover of: Congreve's comedy of Love for love
Congreve's comedy of Love for love
1854, D. Appleton and company
in English
Cover of: Love for love
Love for love: a comedy
1710, Printed in the year
in English
Cover of: Love for love. A comedy.
Love for love. A comedy.: Acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Congreve.
1704, printed for Jacob Tonson: and sold by R. Wellington, G. Strahan, and B. Lintott
in English - The fourth edition.
Cover of: Love for love
Love for love: a comedy. Acted at the theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields, by His Majesty's servants.
1695, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head, near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Lincoln
Series
Regents Restoration drama series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.4
Library of Congress
PR3364 .L7 1966

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 147 p.
Number of pages
147

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5990104M
Internet Archive
loveforlove0000cong_b0r5
LCCN
66020827
OCLC/WorldCat
354962
Library Thing
351640

First Sentence

"THE husbandman in vain renews his toil,"

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