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background v   •   d   •   e Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Vanbrugh was the fourth child (of 19), and eldest surviving son, [

fall from power of his Duchess, and irreparable damage to the reputation of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh . Designed in the rare, and short-lived, English Baroque style, architectural appreciation of the palace is as divided today as it was in the 1720s. [ 2 ] It is unique in its combined

virtuous wife is also subjected to a determined seduction attempt, and resists with difficulty. Vanbrugh planned The Relapse around particular actors at Drury Lane , writing their stage habits, public reputations, and personal relationships into the text. One such actor was Colley Cibber

The theatre was established by architect and playwright John Vanbrugh , in 1705, as the Queen's Theatre . Legitimate drama unaccompanied by music was prohibited by law in all but the two London patent theatres , and so this theatre quickly became an opera house . [ 2 ] Between 1711 and 1739

after misreading a review of one of Henry Moore's early shows. ( more... ) edit Sir John Vanbrugh was an English architect and dramatist , best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace . He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies , The Relapse ( 1696 ) and

The Temple family fortune was based on sheep farming , they were first recorded as such at Witney in Oxfordshire . Later from 1546 they had been renting a sheep farm in Burton Dassett in Warwickshire . The Stowe estate was leased from 1571 by Peter Temple, his son John Temple bought the

The Baroque played into the demand for an architecture that was on the one hand more accessible to the emotions and, on the other hand, a visible statement of the wealth and power of the Church. The new style manifested itself in particular in the context of new religious orders, like the Theatines

Chiswick House was inherited by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington , 4th Earl of Cork and Baron Clifford (1694–1753) on the death of his father, Charles Boyle, in 1704. The mansion was a medium sized Jacobean house and used as a summer retreat to get away from the heat of London in the

Holkham Hall is one of England's finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture, and severity of its design is closer to Palladio's ideals than many of the other numerous Palladian style houses of the period. The Holkham estate, formerly known as Neals, had been purchased in

Charles II was an active and interested patron of the drama. Soon after his restoration, in 1660, he granted exclusive play-staging rights, so-called Royal patents , to the King's Company and the Duke's Company , led by two middle-aged Caroline playwrights, Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant