It opens with a quote from Horace's Satires regarding those who do not "wish well to adulterers.
It opens with a quote from Horace's Satires regarding those who do not "wish well to adulterers." The author drew the two central lovers from Aphra Behn's Helena and Willmore and their interplay reaches its climax in the humorous "contract" scene in Act IV. Additional comedy is provided by the servants Betty, Mincing, and Foible and the comeuppance that Fainall, this play's villain, receives. By the end Lady Wishfort has given her approval to the union of Mirabell and Millamant. FTP, name this last and greatest play by William Congreve.
It opens with a quote from Horace's Satires regarding those who do not "wish well to adulterers.
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