Authority Cited: Vanbrugh's False Friend
Author name and dates: John Vanbrugh (1666-1726)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Vanbrugh cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Vanbrugh cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See also Epitaph on Vanbrugh.]
Author name and dates: John Vanbrugh (1666-1726)
BKG Bio-tweet: French prisons for 5 years (messenger to W of Orange); wrote racy plays still performed; Architect: Blenheim Palace
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Vanbrugh cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Vanbrugh cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. See also Epitaph on Vanbrugh.]
- The false friend. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Sir John Vanbrugh. 1736, London: printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand; cat o' nine tails (Prologue, line 2) [BKG Note: first acted in 1702, play published without Vanbrugh on the title page; SJ quotes the opening lines of the Prologue, which read Cat-a-nine Tails in the 1736 text, Catta-nine-Tailes in the 1702 text.]