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Where 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 theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.