A classic comedy of manners from the Restoration period. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

"Semele: An Opera" by William Congreve is a captivating tale of love, ambition, and divine intervention set against the backdrop of ancient mythology. The story follows the beautiful mortal woman…

Reproduction of the original: The Comedies of William Congrave by William Congreve

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…