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Love for Love

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noun

  1. a comedy (1695) by William Congreve.


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“When you get past that anxiety state, and the reality of what had happened sinks in, that was why I wanted to start Love for Love City,” Mr. Chesney said.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017

Before he was able to make contact with anyone on St. John, he set up a foundation through a donor-advised fund — called Love for Love City — at Wells Fargo Private Bank.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017

Its neighbour The Swan, meanwhile, will bookend a revival of William Congreve's Love for Love with two new plays by Marina Carr and Helen Edmundson.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2015

When John Gielgud brought the Restoration playwright's Love for Love to town, two censors eliminated "lines of questionable taste."

From Time Magazine Archive

Love for Love was the most popular of Congreve’s comedies: it held the stage so long that Hazlitt could say, ‘it still acts and is still acted well.’

From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by Street, G. S. (George Slythe)

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