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When was The Way of the World first performed?
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Way of the World, the masterpiece by English dramatist William Congreve, was first performed in March 1700 at the Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre in London.1