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William Congreve

noun
1.
English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729).  Synonym: Congreve.





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... Plautus ran to only two editions, the first and that of 1716, the Terence appeared in a seventh edition in 1729. Nor was Echard's audience merely made up of students. If one of his main targets was contemporary dramatists, he would have been elated to learn that William Congreve owned a copy of the ...
— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) • Lawrence Echard


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