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The Way of the World Play
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The Way of the World
By William Congreve

أسماء عيسى الزغيبي شعبة الاحد Table of contents :

1.Introduaction of the play
2.Arthur biography
3. Characters
4.Setting
5. Plot
6.Refernces

Arthur biography :
William Congreve was born on January 24, 1670, in the town of Bardsey in Yorkshire, England. By 1672, the family had moved to London; in 1674, the family relocated to the Irish port town of Youghal, where Congreve’s father served as a lieutenant in the British army. Growing up in Ireland, Congreve attended Kilkenny College, where Jonathan Swift was a few years ahead of him. In 1686, Congreve matriculated at Trinity College in Dublin, where he developed an interest in the sensual pleasures of life. Perhaps more importantly, it was while at Trinity that Congreve became a devotee of the theatre. He likely attended the Smock Alley Theatre, which ran plays that recently had success in London.

Introduction :
This play was written to be the exact same of the human beings . some people cheat and dissimulate and also get what they want with all illegal ways . By this way this how the world goes on .

The title of this play is significant because it points to one of the major themes of the play it sort of signals to us what the play is about.
The play is a "comedy of manners" in which the playwright pokes fun at the social customs and values of his time. In this case, the author is mainly making fun of the sexual values of the time. He makes fun of marriages and dowries and he makes fun of the way men and women behave towards each other.
The title helps us understand that he is making fun of these things -- of how the world works. We sometimes will say "that 's the way of the world" when we are commenting on how foolish or absurd things are in our society. So by naming his play that, Congreve is signaling that he thinks that at least some things in his society are absurd or foolish.
Restoration Drama

The term 'Restoration '



References: : http://www.imperialproductions.org/shows/way-of-the-world http://www.enotes.com/way-world http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/restoration-drama/ http://www.imperialproductions.org/shows/way-of-the-world

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