Комедии

John C. Hodges. William Congreve: the Man. New York, 1941, p. 28. См. также: Irvin Ehrenpreis. Swift. Cambridge (Mass.), 1951, p. 23-36.

394

См. подробно: The Kit-Cat Club Portraits. National Portrait Gallery. London, 1971.

395

См. описание портрета у Теккерея: William Thackeray. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Leipzig, 1853, p. 57.

396

Giles Jacob. The Poetical Register: or, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets. London, 1719, p. 42.

397

F. M. A. Voltaire. Lettres Philosophiques. Rouen, 1734. Dixneuvieme Lettre: Sur la Comedie, p. 109-110.

398

William Congreve. Letters and Documents. Ed. by John C. Hodges. New York, 1964, p. 188, 26-27.

399

J. Swift. Journal to Stella. Ed. by Harold WiUiams. Oxford, 1948, p. 310.

400

Ibid., p. 396.

401

Подробно биография Конгрива излагается: Dictionary of National Biography, vol. XII, p. 6-9; John C. Hodges. William Congreve: the Man. New York, 1941; Maximilllan E. Novak. William Congreve, New York, 1971, p. 20-41.

402

J. Swift. Correspondence. Ed. by Harold Williams. Oxford, 1963, v. l. I, p. 14.

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