Born 1664.

The Relapse, 1696 (sequel to Cibber Love's Last Shift).

Aesop, 1697 (from Ésope of Boursault).

The Provok'd Wife, 1697.

The False Friend, 1702 (from Le Sage and y Zorrilla).

The Country House, 1703 (?) (from Dancourt).

The Confederacy, 1705 (from Dancourt).

A Journey to London, unfinished at his death.
Died 1726.

CAPTAIN, afterwards Sir John Vanbrugh, Clarencieux
King at Arms, architect of Blenheim and many other houses,
builder and manager of the Opera House in the Haymarket,
was, as can be guessed from his Multifarious life, above all
things a man of the world, but a very simple and honest
man of the world who did things as they came to his hand
to do. As one might expect from his versatility, what he
chiefly had to bring to the writing of plays was an abundant
vigour, to which he added the common sense which earned
him a nickname. As literary artist he is as unlike Congreve
as can be imagined, but like him he was one of the three
'most honest-hearted real good men, of the poetical
members of the Kit-Cat Club', the third being the obese,
generous, and sceptical Dr. Samuel Garth.

Vanbrugh had one valuable requisite of the writer of
critical comedy, a contempt for all cant and humbug; but

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