Congreve

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

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

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

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Easing the actors on to Planet Congreve was movement director Francine Watson Coleman.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2019

“It’s got that same kind of cruelty,” says Rebeck, who looked at an obscure 17th-century suggestion Rickman made before settling on the Congreve staple.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

Noble authors as well as the greatest wits, the Earl of Orrery, Granville, Dryden, and Congreve, courted the tragic muse.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.