Vanbrugh, the architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, was also one of the wittiest dramatists of the Restoration stage. This first volume of an eighteenth-century collected edition opens with a life of the author and includes The Relapse, with the foppish Lord Foppington, and The Provok’d Wife, in which Lady Brute weighs her brutish husband against her admirer Constant.
Bawdy, sparkling comedy that scandalised the moralists of 1698 and still plays brilliantly today. Download the free EPUB.