CONGREVE

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CONGREVE

WAS BORN NEAR LEEDS IN 1670.HE STUDIED AT DUBLIN TRINITY COLLEGE.

WITH THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 HIS FAMILY MOVED TO LONDON:HERE BEFORE HE STUDIED LAW THEN CHANCED TO LETERATURE.

HE DIED IN LONDON IN 1729,HE WAS BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

HE WROTE:

THE OLD BACHELOR

LOVE FOR LOVE

• THE WAY OF THE WORLD(HIS MASTERPRICE

THE WAY OF THE WORLD(1700)

PLOT

THE YOUNG MIRABELL IS IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MILLAMANT BUT HIS AUNT DIDN'T WANT THE MARRIAGE.

MIRABELL TRIED TO CONVINCE HER BUT FAILED IN THE BEGING BUT IN THE END SHE CONVIECED HER:IN THIS WAY E SAVED HER FROM THE BLACHMAIL FAINALL.

AT THAT TIME WE HAD ONLY ARRANGED MARRIAGES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES,MONEY,...:IT IS AGAINST THIS IDEAS AND BACKGROUD THE FINAL MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE TWO LOVERS.

THEMES

MARRIAGE

THE RELATION BETWEEN PASSION,TRUE LOVE AND SOCIAL CONVENTIONS

LANGUAGE

LIKE ALL THE OTHERS CONTEMPORANY PLAYS WE HAVE THE USE OF DESCRIPTIVE SURNAMES.

MAIN FEATURE

THIS POEM IS A PLEASURE FOR ITS DIALOGUES BUT ALSO MAKES HEADACHE  BECAUSE THE PLOT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW.

THE SEALING OF THE DEED

IN THIS PASSAGE THERE IS THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE TWO LOVERS:THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THEIR POSSIBLE MARRIGE AND THEIR CONSEGUENT FUTURE.

MILLAMANT IS AFRAID TO LOSE IS FREEDOM AFTER THE MARRIAGE ,AT THE END MIRABELL ACCEPTS AT ALL THE ARTICLES FOR THE MARIAGE MADE BY MILLAMANT.