Provok'd

A dramatist – who wrote The Provok'd Wife while a prisoner in the Bastille, he was also a soldier, famous wit and man about town.

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"On the first day of 'The Provok'd Husband,'" says the Poet Laureate,

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

What more might be said of her as an Actress may be found in the Preface to the Provok'd Husband, to which I refer the Reader.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

Upon her extraordinary Action in the Provok'd Husband 311.1 the Menagers made her a Present of Fifty Guineas more than her Agreement, which never was more than a Verbal one; for they knew she was above deserting them to engage upon any other Stage, and she was conscious they would never think it their Interest to give her cause of Complaint.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

"The Provok'd Husband," by Vanbrugh and Cibber, was produced at Drury Lane, January 10, 1728; and though Cibber's Nonjuror enemies tried to condemn it, was very successful.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

Upon the Success of the Relapse the late Lord Hallifax, who was a great Favourer of Betterton's Company, having formerly, by way of Family-Amusement, heard the Provok'd Wife read to him in its looser Sheets, engag'd Sir John Vanbrugh to revise it and gave it to the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

In 1725 we were call'd upon, in a manner that could not be resisted, to revive the Provok'd Wife, 233.1 a Comedy which, while we found our Account in keeping the Stage clear of those loose Liberties it had formerly too justly been charg'd with, we had laid aside for some Years.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

It was played at Drury Lane in February 1728, succeeding the Provok'd Husband.

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

It was played at Drury Lane in February 1728, succeeding the _Provok'd Husband_.

Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

The two former were just playing the _Provok'd Husband_, in which the famous Mrs. Oldfield

Fielding Austin Dobson 1880