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William Congreve

1670 - 1729

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William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright, poet and Whig politician. His works, which form an important component of Restoration literature, were known for their use of satire and the comedy of manners genre. Notable plays he wrote include The Old Bachelor (1693), The Double Dealer (1694), Love for Love (1695), The Mourning Bride (1697) and The Way of the World (1700). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Congreve has received more than 835,554 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). William Congreve is the 2,518th most popular writer (up from 3,227th in 2019), the 1,922nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,412th in 2019) and the 220th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Congreve ranks 2,518 out of 5,755Before him are Predrag Matvejević, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Edith Pargeter, Stephenie Meyer, Gitta Sereny, and Begum Rokeya. After him are Yury Yakovlev, Arthur Young, Commodian, Johannes Mario Simmel, Ilse Aichinger, and Ram Prasad Bismil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1670, William Congreve ranks 15Before him are Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, and Rajaram I. After him are Domenico Trezzini, Zheng Keshuang, Turlough O'Carolan, Olof Celsius, Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Julie d'Aubigny. Among people deceased in 1729, William Congreve ranks 10Before him are Jacob Roggeveen, Jean Meslier, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Johann David Heinichen. After him are John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Samuel Clarke, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Attilio Ariosti, Louis Antoine de Noailles, and Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Congreve ranks 1,922 out of 7,765Before him are Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), John Alcock (1892), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), Willibald (700), Alfred Fowler (1868), and Damon Albarn (1968). After him are Cuthbert (635), Arthur Young (1741), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), Douglas Mawson (1882), and Aelred of Rievaulx (1110).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Congreve ranks 220Before him are Terry Eagleton (1943), Renée Vivien (1877), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Philip Kerr (1956), E. Nesbit (1858), and Edith Pargeter (1913). After him are Arthur Young (1741), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Mary Astell (1666), John Christopher (1922), William Ernest Henley (1849), and Leonard Woolf (1880).