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unusual facts about Love for Love


Lisle's Tennis Court

The New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields opened in April 1695 with William Congreve's Love for Love.



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Restoration comedy

The classics, Wycherley's The Country Wife and The Plain-Dealer, Etherege's The Man of Mode, and Congreve's Love For Love and The Way of the World have competition not only from Vanbrugh's The Relapse and The Provoked Wife, but from such dark unfunny comedies as Thomas Southerne's The Wives Excuse.