This author was a student under George Ashe and later assisted in Dryden's translations of the Satires of Juvenal. He achieved some early stage success with dramas featuring the protagonists Heartwell and Maskwell, but left the stage after the failure of his fifth and by today's standards best comed
This author was a student under George Ashe and later assisted in Dryden's translations of the Satires of Juvenal. He achieved some early stage success with dramas featuring the protagonists Heartwell and Maskwell, but left the stage after the failure of his fifth and by today's standards best comedy. In that work's famous Act IV "proviso" scene, Millamant sets out conditions for her marrying Mirabell. For 10 points-- name this Restoration dramatist of The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and The Way of the World.
This author was a student under George Ashe and later assisted in Dryden's translations of the Satires of Juvenal.
William {Congreve }