The introduction to this edition clarifies the playwright's and his characters' highly intricate plotting and argues that the key metaphor of the play is card-playing, in which fortune, cunning, concealment and a high trump drawn from the ...

This early work, written when he was about 17 years of age, gained him recognition among men of letters and an entrance into the literary world.

Reproduction of the original: The Old Bachelor by William Congreve

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