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The Provoked Wife: A Comedy
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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
By John Vanbrugh
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9781436591119 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2008, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9780548797402 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Sir John Vanbrugh
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By John Vanbrugh
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9781409708209 | Read Books, May 30, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Plays Written By Sir John Vanbrugh: The Confederacy; Tthe Mistake; The Country House; A Journey to London; The Provok'd Husband
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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
By John Vanbrugh
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9780548755532 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Provoked Wife
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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.
By John Vanbrugh
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9780719015267, titled "The Provoked Wife" | Manchester Univ Pr, July 1, 1983, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays.
9780803203747 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this late Restoration comedy Vanbrugh not only pushes the unhappilymarried couple, which had been good for no more than a raucous subplotin earlier comedies of manners, centre-stage - he also makes theaudience sympathise with the wife: The only thing Sir John and LadyBrute agree on is that they ought not to have married each other; nowhe spends his time in drunken debauchery with his cronies, while shetries to withstand the advances of her admirer Constant.

Paperback:

9780713666656 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Vanbrugh's treatment of the woman's role contributes to the current and continuing interest in such social issues.
9780393900316 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1976, cover price $5.70 | also contains Governance Transfer by Regional Organisations: Patching Together a Global Script | About this edition: New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays.

Relapse
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New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotateed editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.
By John Vanbrugh
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9780713628876 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotateed editions of important English plays.

Four Great Restoration Comedies: The Country / The Man of Mode / The Rover / The Relapse
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By Aphra Behn, George Etherege, John Vanbrugh and William Wycherley
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9780486445700 | Dover Pubns, October 26, 2005, cover price $5.00

The Relapse: The Provoked Wife ; The Confederacy ; A Journey to London ; The Country House
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Product Description: John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), one of the principal Restoration dramatists, is best known for comedies that capture the hilarious idiosyncrasies and unique subject matter of marital discord. This collection contains five of his most rollicking comedies on marital disharmony, edited to the high standard of the Oxford English Drama series in modernized spelling and including full notes and glossary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Brean S. Hammond (editor) and John Vanbrugh
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9780192833235 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 9, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), one of the principal Restoration dramatists, is best known for comedies that capture the hilarious idiosyncrasies and unique subject matter of marital discord.

Sir John Vanbrugh: Four Comedies : The Relapse, the Provoked Wife, the Confederacy, a Journey to London
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Product Description: This collection of four plays spans his career as a dramatist and contains "The Relapse" which contrasts two different marriages; "The Provok'd Wife" a study of hypocrisy; "The Confederacy" a comedy of provoked husbands; "A Journey to London" which reaffirms the supremacy of male passion...read more
By Michael Cordner (editor) and John Vanbrugh
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9780140432763 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This collection of four plays spans his career as a dramatist and contains "The Relapse" which contrasts two different marriages; "The Provok'd Wife" a study of hypocrisy; "The Confederacy" a comedy of provoked husbands; "A Journey to London" which reaffirms the supremacy of male passion.

Provoked Husband
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By Colley Cibber, Peter Dixon (editor) and John Vanbrugh
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Hardcover:

9780803203785 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $18.95
9780803203785 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $18.95

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