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Vanbrugh

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Van·brugh  (vnbr, vn-br), Sir John 1664-1726.
English playwright and architect who wrote The Provok'd Wife (produced 1697) and designed Blenheim Palace.
Vanbrugh [ˈvænbrə]
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(Biographies / Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist, ARCHITECTURE: architect) Sir John. 1664-1726, English dramatist and baroque architect. His best-known plays are the Restoration comedies The Relapse (1697) and The Provok'd Wife (1697). As an architect, he is noted esp for Blenheim Palace
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Noun1.VanbrughVanbrugh - English architect (1664-1726)        
John Vanbrugh, Sir John Vanbrigh


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Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
To the next generation and the end of the period (or rather of the Restoration literature, which actually lasted somewhat beyond 1700), belong William Congreve, a master of sparkling wit, Sir John Vanbrugh, and George Farquhar.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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