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en-wikipedia-org-7812		The Provoked Wife - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1450	145	71	The Provoked Wife (1697) is the second original comedy written by John Vanbrugh. The often-repeated claim that Vanbrugh wrote part of his comedy The Provoked Wife in the Bastille is based on allusions in a couple of much later memoirs, but is regarded with some doubt by modern scholars (see McCormick). In the intimate conversational dialogue between Lady Brute and her niece Bellinda (Bracegirdle), and especially in the star part of Sir John Brute the brutish husband (Betterton), which was hailed as one of the peaks of Thomas Betterton's remarkable career, The Provoked Wife is something as unusual as a Restoration problem play. A later unfinished play by Vanbrugh was completed by Colley Cibber and staged under the title The Provoked Husband in 1728. Trevor Peacock played Sir John Brute, Prunella Scales Lady Brute and Zoe Wanamaker Belinda in a production at the Watford Palace Theatre 21 February 10 March 1973. ^ http://earlymoderntheatre.co.uk/film-the-provoked-wife/ Categories: Plays by John Vanbrugh	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7812.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7812.txt