Excerpt from The British Theatre, or a Collection of Plays, Which Are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket, Vol. 13 of 25: Love for Love; Mourning Bride; Mahomet; Tancred and Sigismunda; Suspicious Husband The celebrated author of this comedy was de scended from a family of such antiquity, as to have their line extended beyond the Norman Conquest. It IS a subject of dispute, whether Congreve was born In England or Ireland but it is certain, that he received his education In the last named kingdom. His father, having a commission in the army, on the Irish establishment, placed him when young at the great school of Kilkenny and afterwards in the uni versity of Dublin, under the direction of Dr. Ash. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.