Love for Love

Author(s): Congreve, William
Note: Date of composition from Kelsall, Venice Preserv’d, p. xii. William Congreve (1670 – 1729)
Date of composition:
  • 1694
Date of first performance: 1695
Date of first publication: 1695
Genre (Annals): Comedy
Genre: comedy of manners

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1968 modern edition by Gamini Salgado
  • 1695 quarto Tonson, Jacob single-play print
      ESTC: R8699 Wing C5851
      EEBO-TCP: A34302 - Huntington Library - EEBO record – TCP HTML XML
      Observations: Facsimile: Congreve, William. Love for Love: 1695. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.

Early Performances

  • Company: Betterton’s company Venue: Lincoln's Inn Fields Date: 1695
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: 30 April
      Information source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 1 Restoration Drama 1660-1700. 1952.

    Modern editions

    • McKenzie, D. F., ed. The Works of William Congreve: Vol. I: The Old Batchelor, The Double-Dealer, Love for Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
    • Womersley, David, ed. Restoration Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Blackwell Anthologies.
    • Thomas, David, ed. Six Restoration and French Neoclassic Plays. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1998.
    • Kelsall, Malcolm, ed. Love for Love. Congreve, William. London: E. Benn, 1969. New Mermaids.
    • Caputi, Anthony, ed. Masterworks of World Drama. Baroque and Restoration Theater. Vol. 4. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1968.
    • Avery, Emmett L., ed. Love for Love. Congreve, William. London: Edward Arnold, 1967. Regents Restoration Drama.
    • Jaffares, Norman, ed. Love for Love. Congreve, William. London: Macmillan Press, 1967. English Classics.
    • Davies, Herbert, ed. Congreve: The Complete Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1967.
    • Moore, Cecil A., ed. Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. New York: Modern Library, 1933. The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books.

    Select Bibliography: Translations

    • ES:
      • Congreve, William. "Todo por amor". Tra. Calvo García de Leonardo, Juan José. Biblioteca Digital EMOTHE. Valencia: ARTELOPE / EMOTHE Universitat de València, 2018. URL: https://emothe.uv.es/biblioteca/textosEMOTHE/EMOTHE0495_AmorPorAmor.php
    • DE:
      • Congreve, William. Liebe für Liebe : Komödie in 4 Akten. Tra. Gillner, Robert. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1967.
      • Congreve, William. Liebe für Liebe: Ein Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen. Tra. Schröder, Friedrich Ludwig; Meyer, Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm. Kopenhagen / Leipzig: {Falta nombre editorial}, 1766.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Caldwell, Lauren. "'Drink up all the water in the sea': contracting relationships in Congreve's 'Love for Love' and 'The Way of the World'". ELH. 2015, vol. 1, 82, p. 183-210.
    • Velissariou, Aspasia. "'Love for Love': patriarchal politics versus love". Restoration. 2006, vol. 2, 30, p. 39- 55.
    • Sieber, Anita. Character portrayal in Congreve's comedies 'The Old Batchelour', 'Love for Love', and 'The Way of the World'. Lewiston: Mellen Press, 1996.
    • Novak, Maximillian. "Foresight in the stars and scandal in London: reading the hieroglyphics in Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Ed. Markley, Robert; Finke, Laurie. From Renaissance to Restoration: metamorphoses of the drama. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, 1984, p. 180-206.
    • Donaldson, Ian. "'Tom Jones', XVII. iii and 'Love for Love'". Notes and Queries. 1983, 30, p. 49-50.
    • Thompson, James. "Reading and acting in 'Love for Love'". Essays in Literature. 1980, 7, p. 21-30.
    • Taney, Retta M. "The treatment of madness in 'Love for Love'". Forum. 1979, 17, p. 15-19.
    • Taits, I. F. "Ideinoe i khudozhestvennoe svoebrazie p'esy U. Congriva 'Liubov' za liubov''. (The ideological and artistic originality of Congreve's play 'Love for Love'.)". Sbornik nauchnykh trudov Sverdlovskogo pedagogicheskogo instituta. 1979, 319, p. 76-88.
    • Thompson, James. "A dance from 'Love for Love'". Notes and Queries. 1978, 25, p. 34.
    • Hoffman, Arthur W. "Allusions and the definition of themes in Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Ed. Martz, Louis L.. The author in his work: essays on a problem in criticism. London: Yale University Press, 1978, p. 283-96.
    • Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Kimpel, Ben D. "The text of Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Library. 1975, 30, p. 334-6.
    • Jarvis, F. P. "The philosophical assumptions of Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 1972, 14, p. 423-34.
    • Williams, Aubrey. "The 'utmost tryal' of virtue and Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Tennessee Studies in Literature. 1972, 17, p. 1-18.
    • Hoffman, Arthur W. "Congreve's 'Love for Love', II. i. 171-259". Explicator. 1970, vol. 72, 28, .
    • Gosse, Anthony. "The Omitted Scene in Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Modern Philology. 1963, 61, p. 40-2.
    • Cooke, Arthur L. "Two Parallels between Dryden's 'Wild Gallant' and Congreve's 'Love for Love'". Notes and Queries. 1954, , p. 27-8.
    • Gielgud, John. "Staging 'Love for Love'". Theatre Arts Monthly. 1943, 27, p. 662-8.
    • Hodges, John Cuyus. "The Ballad in Congreve's 'Love for Love'". PMLA: publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1933, 48, p. 953-4.

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