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...Relapse; or Virtue in Danger," Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy which is to revived at Leverett House at 8.30 o'clock be next Monday is a typical product of the Restoration stage, complete with rakes, fops, confidantes, country squires, and the questionable population of the lunatic fringe of love...
Though it has apparently not been seen on the stage since 1870, it was a great success when first produced in 1696, and continued so during the 18th century. Vanbrugh wrote it, he remarked, to divert the wits of the town "and make them forget their spleen in spite of their wives and taxes...
...honor of being singled out for special condemnation the next year by that ferocious moralist Jeremy Collier, in his attack on the "immorality and profaneness of the English stage," and in reply Vanbrugh calmly enunciated his theory of comedy -- "to show people what they should do, by representing them on the stage doing what they should...
...Vanbrugh," Professor Sprague, Harvard...
...jocund luncheon afterward, the Rt. Rev. Charles Lisle Carr, Bishop of Coventry cried: "To Shakespeare's immortal memory!" and upended his glass. Cried Dramatist St. John Greer Ervine: "To the drama!" Sparkling-eyed Actress Violet Vanbrugh responded to this toast. Later Mr. Ervine, who spent the winter of 1928-29 in Manhattan taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare...