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What management role did William Congreve take at Lincoln’s Inn Fields theatre?
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William Congreve
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve served as one of the managers of the new theatre at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. He took on this management role following the theatre's opening in 1695, at which time he also promised to provide the company with a new play every year.1