Author:William Congreve

William Congreve
(1670–1729)

William Congreve

Works

Comedies

• Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd (1692)
• The Double Dealer (1693)
• The Old Bachelor (1693)
• Love for Love (1695)
• The Way of the World (1700)

Tragic dramas

• The Mourning Bride (1697) (external scan)

Poems

• False though She be
• A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret
• On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing
• A Ballad on Quadrille (c. 1726)

Works about Congreve

• "William Congreve," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 21−25), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "William Congreve," in The lives of the most eminent English poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp. 39–61
• Life of William Congreve (1888) excerpt
• Mr. Congreve, short biography of the author by The New York Times (September 16 1888)NYT, PDF
• "Congreve, William (1670-1729)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Congreve", in Miscellanies (1886) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Congreve, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Congreve, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)