The Double Dealer, 1694

William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration Period. By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 1695) and The Way of the World (premiered 1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697). Congreve then retired producing an occasional poem and some translations (notably Molire's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac). The Double-Dealer is a Restoration comedy first published in 1706.