Love for Love
William Congreve author Malcolm Kelsall editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:29th Jan '99
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
With modern spelling, a fully annotated edition of this English play, including a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, bibliography and information about the staging of the play.
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. 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
ISBN: 9780713643237
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
Weight: 184g
160 pages