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This is the only selection of Vanbrugh's plays currently in print* John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), architect of Blenheim and one of the principal Restoration dramatists, best known for his comedies of marital disharmony of which the most famous are The Relapse and The Provoked Wife * The best value edition, containing five plays, edited to the high standard of the Osford English Drama series in modernized spelling and including full notes and glossary * The texts are taken from the First Quartos. This is the first edition of The Country House to be based on the first quarto, and the first edition o...
This is the only selection of Vanbrugh's plays currently in print
* John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), architect of Blenheim and one of the principal Restoration dramatists, best known for his comedies of marital disharmony of which the most famous are The Relapse and The Provoked Wife
* The best value edition, containing five plays, edited to the high standard of the Osford English Drama series in modernized spelling and including full notes and glossary
* The texts are taken from the First Quartos. This is the first edition of The Country House to be based on the first quarto, and the first edition of this play of any kind since 1927
DESCRIPTION:
The Relapse * The Provoked Wife * The Confederacy * A Journey to London * The Country House
These five comedies on the theme of marital disharmony by the foremost Restoration playwright John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are published in the Oxford English Drama series. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography which together illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.'
Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University
* John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), architect of Blenheim and one of the principal Restoration dramatists, best known for his comedies of marital disharmony of which the most famous are The Relapse and The Provoked Wife
* The best value edition, containing five plays, edited to the high standard of the Osford English Drama series in modernized spelling and including full notes and glossary
* The texts are taken from the First Quartos. This is the first edition of The Country House to be based on the first quarto, and the first edition of this play of any kind since 1927
DESCRIPTION:
The Relapse * The Provoked Wife * The Confederacy * A Journey to London * The Country House
These five comedies on the theme of marital disharmony by the foremost Restoration playwright John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are published in the Oxford English Drama series. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography which together illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.'
Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University