Author: John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh
Author: John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: The preface. Introduction. The letters
Author: John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramaists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: The preface. Introduction. The letters
Author: Sir John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife
Author: John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramaists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife.-v. 2. Æsop, pt. I-II. The pilgrim. The false friend. The country house.-v. 3.The confederacy. The mistake. A journey to London. The provok'd husband.-v. 4. The preface. Introduction. The letters
Author: Sir John VanbrughPublisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife
Author: Sir John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok's wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife
Author: Sir John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh
Author: Jeremy MussonPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The country houses designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are some of the most original and memorable works of architecture in Britain. He was rightly judged 'The Shakespeare of architects' by Sir John Soane, and was the designer of Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, two of the great iconic houses of their age. He also designed or remodelled a string of amazing country houses, sometimes described as 'enchanted castles' such as Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland and Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire. Vanbrugh's life was even more remarkable than his houses. The son of a merchant of Dutch extraction, his grandfather left Haarlem to avoid religious persecution as a protestant; his mother was related to many of the great landed families of the day, including the Earl of Abingdon and the Duke of Devonshire. He began his career as a merchant, travelled to India in the service of the East India Company, served as an army officer, was arrested, as a civilian in France and imprisoned on suspicion of being a spy, worked as both playwright and theatrical impresario, writing and producing successful comedies such as The Relapse and then, in 1699 he turned his lively mind to architecture. This new book, brings together 200 of the finest photographs of his country houses, taken for Country Life magazine over the last 100 years, and is introduced by a short biography covering his remarkable life and character and his important relationship with his assistant, Nicholas Hawksmoor. The breathtaking colour and duotone images that illustrate the book are accompanied with well-researched and readable accounts of his great houses and their landscapes. Jeremy Musson is an architectural historian, writer and broadcaster who worked for Country Life for 12 years, first as architectural writer and then as architectural editor; he has also worked as a curator for the National Trust and presented a popular BBC 2 series The Curious House Guest and is author of The English Manor House and How to Read a Country House.
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh
Author: John VanbrughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780
Author: John RichettiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781442
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 offers readers discussions of the entire range of literary expression from the Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. In essays by thirty distinguished scholars, recent historical perspectives and new critical approaches and methods are brought to bear on the classic authors and texts of the period. Forgotten or neglected authors and themes as well as new and emerging genres within the expanding marketplace for printed matter during the eighteenth century receive special attention and emphasis. The volume's guiding purpose is to examine the social and historical circumstances within which literary production and imaginative writing take place in the period and to evaluate the enduring verbal complexity and cultural insights they articulate so powerfully.
