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	John Vanbrugh
		Vanbrugh was fiercely attacked by Jeremy Collier for immorality in 1698, and wrote nothing more for the stage until 1700, when an adaptation of the Pilgrim of Beaumont and Fletcher was produced at Drury Lane.
		Vanbrugh considered a building and the parts of a building as simply so much material for effect, without regard to their reasonable use and the necessary limitations of design.
		In January 1719 Vanbrugh married Henrietta Maria, daughter of Colonel Yarborough of Heslington, and four years afterwards, at the accession of George I, he was knighted.
	www.nndb.com /people/199/000101893 (1557 words)

	Sir John Vanbrugh - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR JOHN VANBRUGH (1664-1726), British dramatist and architect, was born in the parish of St Nicolas Aeons in the City of London, and christened on the 24th of January 1664.
		Vanbrugh was fiercely attacked by Jeremy Collier for immorality in 1698, and wrote nothing more for the stage until 1700, when an adaptation of the Pilgrim of Beaumont and Fletcher was produced at Drury Lane.
		In the meantime, Vanbrugh had been appointed architect to the earl of Carlisle, and the result, completed in 1714, was the Corinthian mansion of Castle Howard.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_John_Vanbrugh (1624 words)

	John Vanbrugh - Free net encyclopedia
		Vanbrugh was born in London, and grew up in Chester, where the family had been driven by the major outbreak of the plague in London in 1665.
		Vanbrugh and his associate William Congreve hoped by this enterprise to improve the chances of legitimate theatre in London, which was under threat from more colourful types of entertainment such as opera, juggling, pantomime (introduced by John Rich), animal acts, travelling dance troupes, and famous visiting Italian singers.
		Vanbrugh is remembered throughout Britain, by inns, street names, a university college (York) and schools named in his honour, but one only has to wander through London, or the English country-side dotted with their innumerable country houses, to see the ever present influence of his architecture.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/John_Vanbrugh (5955 words)

	Vanbrugh, Sir John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Vanbrugh’s masterpiece, The Provoked Wife (1697), was attacked (1698) by Jeremy Collier in his famous diatribe on the immorality of the English stage.
		Vanbrugh was an inventive playwright, imbued with the wit and cynicism that were common to the Restoration dramatists.
		His best-known buildings are Blenheim Palace (the perfect example of his genius for the heroic and a culmination of English baroque), Castle Howard, the Queen’s Theatre in the Haymarket, and Seaton Delaval.
	www.bartleby.com /65/va/Vanbrugh.html (263 words)

	A Biography of Sir John Vanbrugh
		Vanbrugh owned Claremont for a time and built his own house, Vanbrugh Castle on the east side Greenwich Park.
		John Vanbrugh was also involved with garden design.
		John Vanbrugh worked with Bridgeman at Stowe and Claremont.
	www.gardenvisit.com /b/vanburgh.htm (105 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Vanbrugh, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664–1726) English Baroque architect and dramatist, who worked with and was influenced by Sir Christopher Wren.
		Vanbrugh took London by storm with his witty Restoration comedies, The Relapse (1696) and The Provok'd Wife (1697), before turning to architecture.
		John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, commanded a British and Austrian army that defeated the French forces of Louis...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Vanbrugh, (744 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Sir John Vanbrugh
		After an early career as a foot soldier, Vanbrugh penned his first play, "The Relapse: Or Virtue in Danger" (1696), as a sequel to Colley Cibber’s "Love’s Last Shift." A year later he followed with "The Provok’d Wife." Both were robust, ebullient comedies, full of satire, caricatures, and bombast.
		Vanbrugh’s innovative ideas, undoubtedly the sign of a newcomer to the field, were made practicable by his partner in the commission, Nicholas Hawksmoor (formerly the clerk of the great architect Sir Christopher Wren).
		Vanbrugh’s own money was lost on the project, but he rallied in 1705 when John Churchill asked him to design the palace at Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1310 (691 words)

	The Spy Who Came into the Loeb
		Vanbrugh occupied the fourth chamber of the ironically named Tower of Liberty, where the rooms were, "large and fairly comfortable though dark.
		Vanbrugh was also allowed to roam the grounds, visit other prisoners, receive guests, smoke, play cards and chess, borrow books from the library, maintain a dog, cat, or tame bird.
		Vanbrugh was finally released in 1692, when help came in the form of the Jacobites (followers of James II) who brokered a deal for an exchange of Vanbrugh, a Turkish merchant named Montagu North, and Goddard, a student from Angers, for two Jacobite generals who had been imprisoned in the Tower of London since 1691.
	www.amrep.org /articles/3_1a/thespy.html (1049 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Sir John Vanbrugh (1664) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British dramatist and architect,; was born in the parish of St Nicolas Acons in the City of London,; and christened on the 24th of January 1664.
		The queen while she lived paid them, and then Vanbrugh was left to the meanness of the duke of Maryborough, and afterwards to the insolence of the "wicked woman," who did her best to embitter his life.
		In January 1719 Vanbrugh married Henrietta Maria, daughter of Colonel Yarborough of Heslington, and four years afterwards, at the accession of George I.,; he was knighted.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=21 (1844 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		Vanbrugh my enemy', she wrote, Òby the constant disputes I had with him to prevent his extravagance.' The immensity of the Grand Bridge and its cost was one of the main subjects of their dispute.
		Vanbrugh in its defence went so far as to assure her that if, when it was finished, she found a house inside it she would go and live in it.
		Sir John [Vanbrugh] never thought of this cascade,' she complacently adds, Òwhich will be the finest and large st that ever was made.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/historichouses/south_east/blenheim_palace/bpbridge.html (1050 words)

	John Gibson
		John Gibson is one of Ireland's leading pianist-composers.
		John has performed extensively over the past 30 years, with the National Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet.
		In 1997 John was awarded the prestigious Nijinsky Medal for his piano piece Nijinsky, by the Polish Ministry of Arts and Culture and the International Society of the Friends of Vaclav Nijinsky.
	www.johncgibson.com (313 words)

	Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 - 1726) - British Architects - Resources - West Country Fires
		The Haymarket is probably Vanbrugh's least successful venture, although the rumour that the acoustics of the design were poor seems unfounded, and in 1708 he was forced to sell the business at a loss.
		Vanbrugh designed Castle Howard for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, Charles Howard, as his family seat and it is still occupied by the Howard family today.
		Vanbrugh designed the palace to be viewed from a distance and gave it 'castle air' with the use of stone towers and its strong Baroque style.
	www.westcountryfires.co.uk /fireplaces_info/john_vanbrugh.asp (1011 words)

	Blenheim Palace History
		When John Churchill (1650-1722), the 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeated the French at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, Queen Anne gave him the manor of Woodstock and had the palatial home of Blenheim Palace built for him in gratitude.
		Blenheim Palace was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh and on 30th November 1874 was the birthplace of Winston Churchill, Britain's World War II leader.
		Winston Churchill was born in the suite of rooms that lie to the west of the Great Hall.
	www.cotswoldswebsite.com /blenheimpalace/blenheim-palace-history.htm (220 words)

	Sir John Vanbrugh ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
		John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.
		John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
	wwar.com /masters/v/vanbrugh-sir_john.html (510 words)

	Frank McCormick: Sir John Vanbrugh
		Hardback: $54.00 SH McCormick's study is the first to show the interrelation of Vanbrugh's seemingly disparate careers as architect and dramatist.
		Vanbrugh wrote or adapted ten comedies (The Relapse and The Provoked Wife proving the most successful) and designed a host of country houses of which the best known are Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
		McCormick challenges the previous critical studies of Vanbrugh that have concentrated on either his architectural of his playwriting career to the exclusion of the other.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-00723-0.html (137 words)

	Playwright-Fault
		To this he replied 'Madam, you have been pleased to bestow a title on me which belongs only to the fortunate.' She took the compliment in the spirit it was intended and soon became his benefactor.
		Vanbrugh was brutally attacked by Collier in his criticism of the English stage.
		Vanbrugh wrote nothing more until 1700, it was during this break that his interest in architecture became more focussed.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /english/murray/Restoration/play.html (1868 words)

	Sir John Vanbrugh
		Vanbrugh was, as all the world knows, the architect of Blenheim Palace, as he also was of Castle Howard.
		His father, Giles Vanbrugh, had nine-teen children, of whom thirteen appear to have lived for some length of time, and of John's education nothing precise is known.
		Vanbrugh's personality is not clearly revealed to us anywhere, but he appears to have been a pleasant companion and witty talker.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles33n/books-9.shtml (1509 words)

	Past Productions: The Provok'd Wife
		Flanked by a squadron of drunken rakes, debauched aristocrats, and lascivious French maids, the Brutes turn the town into a battlefield of love and infidelity, armed to the teeth with their dazzling, sharp-honed wit.
		First staged in 1697, The Provok'd Wife is the crowning glory of the English Restoration - the explosive era that banished the Puritans, reopened the theatres, and prized outrageous comedies of social mayhem and sexual license.
		John Vanbrugh - playwright, politician, soldier, spy, and the architect of Blenheim Palace - was languishing in the Bastille when he drafted The Provok'd Wife, an immorality tale of the very rich behaving very badly.
	www.amrep.org /wife (469 words)

	Official London Theatre Guide \| London Theatre News
		Vanbrugh was born in London in 1664, of Flemish descent.
		Although Vanbrugh's style and humour was perhaps a little more tempered than many of his contemporaries, in 1698 he received an assault from an outraged clergyman, Jeremy Collier who condemned his works in particular as unacceptable and obscene.
		Vanbrugh made only a few alterations for a Haymarket revival of The Provok’d Wife in 1706, but with newly added scenes and the character of Sir John made “clear of his former profaneness” Colley Cibber’s revival twenty years later was an instant hit.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/profiles/display?contentId=72818 (824 words)

	March 26th
		Vanbrugh was of Dutch descent, and the son of a sugar-baker at Chester, where he was born in 1666.
		Many years before this, Vanbrugh had acquired some reputation for architectural skill; for in 1695 he was appointed one of the commissioners for completing the palace at Greenwich, when it was about to be converted into an hospital.
		This brought the architect vexation as well as fame; for Duchess Sarah, 'that wicked woman of Marlborough,' as Vanbrugh calls her, discharged him from his post of architect, and refused to pay what was due to him as salary.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/march/26.htm (1246 words)

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		Vanbrugh's new playhouse was to function only briefly as a venue for spoken drama, but was to be London's principal opera house until it burned in 1789.
		The result was a stand-off: the Lord Chamberlain was Vanbrugh's friend and ally, but he was evidently not prepared to face the uproar that an enforced union would unquestionably have generated.
		John Dennis' rather wooden {u}Gibraltar{/u}{+} managed only two nights, with the author's benefit moved up to the second night to let the company dump the show as fast as possible (16 February).
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /pub/thesis-packages/temp/LOND1704.TXT (12946 words)

	Theater Pro
		See “The Relapse,” written in 1696 by John Vanbrugh, staged with style by Trevor Nunn, and performed by a consummate group of actors led by Alex Jennings as Lord Foppington.
		Vanbrugh couldn’t stomach Cibber’s hypocritical ending, in which rakish hero Loveless, after whoring, drinking, and gambling, repents and is forgiven by his long-suffering but faithful wife, Amanda.
		Elevating him to the title of Lord, Vanbrugh creates one of the most memorable comic characters of Restoration drama, Lord Foppington, the fop of fops, and as brilliantly acted by Alex Jennings, the centerpiece of this delightful comedy.
	www.theaterpro.com /pl_vanbrugh.html (840 words)

	Hawksmoor's Mausoleum and Obelisk, Castle Howard
		The commission itself was intriguing in that when Vanbrugh was approached for the job he was a military man just embarking on a remarkably successful second career as a popular playwright, and as far as is known he had never before shown the slightest inclination towards architecture.
		Vanbrugh gave the Earl the sumptuous baroque palace he so desperately wanted, but indulged his own preferences for battlements in the walls and outbuildings.
		Before reaching Vanbrugh's fortified walls, the visitor encounters at the extreme edge of the Howard estate, on Bulmer Hill near Welburn, the column to the memory of George William Frederick Howard, the seventh Earl.
	www.darkshire.net /~jhkim/rpg/ripper/hawksmoor/howard.html (725 words)

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