id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9025 The Way of the World - Wikipedia .html text/html 2388 230 74 The Way of the World is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. Act 1 is set in a chocolate house where Mirabell and Fainall have just finished playing cards. The epigraph found on the title page of the 1700 edition of The Way of the World contains two Latin quotations from Horace's Satires. One of the features of a Restoration comedy is the opposition of the witty and courtly (and Cavalier) rake and the dull-witted man of business or the country bumpkin, who is understood to be not only unsophisticated but often (as, for instance, in the very popular plays of Aphra Behn in the 1670s) either Puritan or another form of dissenter. Therefore, The Way of the World's recreation of the older Restoration comedy's patterns is only one of the things that made the play unusual. Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Way of the World (Congreve play). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9025.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9025.txt