The Way of the World. It is a far cry from 14th Street to Congreve. Yet just a little below that tawdry thoroughfare, buried in the back of Greenwich Village, is the tiny Cherry Lane Playhouse where Congreve has come back to life. The gentleman under discussion is an English dramatist of the 17th Century. He was considered the Bernard Shaw of his time. His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society. The Way of the World is often thought his best.
The plot is an involved attempt to marry a servant...
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