The Double-Dealer: A Comedy

Name: The Double-Dealer: A Comedy
Author: William Congreve
ISBN: 9781911144397

Author: William Congreve
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 142 pages
ISBN: 9781911144397
Published: 15 November 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

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comedy
drama
humour
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classic
stage
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Description

Touchwood, about to marry Cynthia, daughter of Sir Paul Plyant. Lady Touchwood, a violent and dissolute woman, is in love with Mellefont, but as he rejects her advances, determines to prevent the match and ruin him in Lord Touchwood's esteem. In this design she finds a confederate in Maskwell, the Double Dealer, who has been her lover, pretends to be Mellefont's friend, and aspires to cheat him of Cynthia and get her for himself.

Author

William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. Congreve spent his childhood in Ireland, where his father, a Cavalier, had settled during the reign of Charles II. Congreve was educated at Kilkenny College where he met Jonathan Swift, who would be his friend for the remainder of his life; and at Trinity College in Dublin. William Congreve wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period.

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