Congreve

"We turn them up and we measure them, they're dead pretty quickly," says Mr Congreve.

At times they call to mind one of Congreve’s or Sheridan’s comedies of manners.

Any woman of a certain age in anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Congreve, Dryden or Sheridan.

Also playing to her comedic strengths was the role of Lady Wishfort in “The Way of the World,” a comedy of manners by the 18th-century British dramatist William Congreve.

Music is often thought of as inherently good, a view exemplified in the playwright Wilhelm Congreve's oft-cited aphorism "music hath charms to soothe a savage breast."