Sir John Vanbrugh

The Provoked Wife

Herausgeber: Smith, James L

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vanbrugh's treatment of the woman's role contributes to the current and continuing interest in such social issues. The book includes a commentary and critical introduction which sets the play in its historical, social and theatrical context.

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Produktdetails

• New Mermaids
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9780713666656
• ISBN-10: 071366665X
• Artikelnr.: 21834012

Autorenporträt

John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was an English playwright of the later Restoration era; also the architect who created the English Baroque style in architecture, designing Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire and Castle Howard in Yorkshire. One of 19 children of a Flemish sugar baker, Vanbrugh became an officer with the Earl of Huntingdon's regiment in 1686. Four years later he was imprisoned in Calais as a suspected spy, being moved in 1692 to the Bastille. The regime was not brutal: he enjoyed four course dinners and three bottles of wine a day and amused himself by writing a draft of The Provok'd Wife. Vanbrugh's first successful play was The Relapse: or Virtue in Danger, a comedy about a libertine and his long-suffering wife. It was written and produced in 1696. At Lord Halifax's urging, Vanbrugh revised The Provok'd Wife for production at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in 1697; it was a comedy about a miserable marriage that would later provide David Garrick with one of his most famous roles. The robust action and bawdy realism of his plays, however, were beginning to attract attention from moralists. Both works were singled out by Jeremy Collier in his celebrated pamphlet A Short View of the Immorality of the English Stage. Vanbrugh died of asthma in 1726.