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Which William Congreve play received less applause than The Old Bachelour when it first appeared?
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William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The William Congreve play that received less applause than The Old Bachelour when it first appeared was The Double-Dealer.
Although The Old Bachelour was an enormous success upon its debut in 1693, The Double-Dealer, which followed later that same year, did not meet with the same level of initial acclaim, though it later became more critically admired.1