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Provoked Wife: A Comedy

by John Vanbrugh read by Alan Mapstone and 15 others

Comedy

3 hr 41 min 5 parts English First published 1776

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5 parts · 3 hr 41 min

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Part 1Prologue and Act I

32 min

Part 2Act II

33 min

Part 3Act III

52 min

Part 4Act IV

47 min

Part 5Act V and Epilogue

57 min

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John Vanbrugh

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Alan Mapstone

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Adrian Stephens

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Greg Giordano

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This Restoration Comedy follows Lady Brute as she decides whether or not to cuckold her coarse and unloving husband. Not as brash and farcical as Vanbrugh's earlier play "The Relapse," "The Provoked Wife" comments on society and matrimony in a surprisingly mod…

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Published: 1776
Language: English

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