More successful in its day than The Way of the World, which is nowaccounted Congreves best play, Love for Love (1695) is a comical farcemanifesting the verbal polish and the theatrical wit that audiences soenjoy in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampsons dissolute eldest son, findshimself at a standstill the only way out of his financial difficultiesis to give in to his fathers pressure to renounce his right ofinheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances ofhis bluff younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentines ownchances with his beloved Angelica would proportionally decrease. Toavoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine puts on an anticdisposition and pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him,provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry hisfather. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, hasmeanwhile found the girl of his heart

Binding: Paperback;162 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DD; Weight: 282 g; Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 11

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