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- L'Épouse outragée (The Provoked Wife) est une comédie de la Restauration écrite par le dramaturge et architecte anglais John Vanbrugh en 1697, peu après La Rechute ou la Vertu en danger. Tout comme cette dernière, la pièce fut conçue pour la troupe théâtrale de Vanbrugh, et jouée par elle, mais elle adopte un ton différent. Tandis que La Rechute avait été rédigée dans un phrasé simple et robuste, susceptible de convenir à des acteurs amateurs ou modestes, Vanbrugh a spécialement adapté L'Épouse outragée aux grands acteurs de l'époque que sont Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry et l'étoile montant Anne Bracegirdle, en dotant la pièce de personnages profonds et nuancés. La pièce de Vanbrugh a été traduite en français et imprimée à Londres en 1700 : La femme poussée à bout : comédie / traduite de la pièce anglaise [de John Vanbrugh] intitulée "The provok’d wife". Sur l'imprimé à Londres : chez J. Wite, 1700 (catalogue BNF).Cette traduction est attribuée à Charles de Saint-Évremond, car elle figure aussi dans un recueil de Mélanges curieux des meilleures pièces qui sont attribuées à M. de Saint-Evremond, et de quelques autres ouvrages rares ou curieux (Amsterdam, 1726, tome I), mais l’éditeur dit simplement que cette traduction « peut servir d’éclaircissement à ce que Mr. de St. Evremond a dit de la Comédie Anglaise » (Préface, p. XIII), ce qui laisse entendre que le texte français n’est pas de Saint-Evremond. (fr)
- The Provoked Wife (1697) is the second original comedy written by John Vanbrugh. It made its first appearance in Lincoln's Inn Fields in May, 1697. 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). It is different in tone from his first play, the largely farcical The Relapse, and adapted to the greater acting skills of the new company of actors chosen for its premiere, who walked out not long before in a dispute with management. The actors' cooperative boasted the established star performers of the age, and Vanbrugh tailored The Provoked Wife to their specialties. While The Relapse had been robustly phrased to be suitable for amateurs and minor acting talents, he could count on versatile professionals like Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry, and the rising young star Anne Bracegirdle to do justice to characters of depth and nuance. The Provoked Wife is a comedy, but Elizabeth Barry who played the abused wife was especially famous as a tragic actress, and for her power of "moving the passions", i.e., moving an audience to pity and tears. Barry and the younger Bracegirdle had often worked together as a tragic/comic heroine pair to bring audiences the typically tragic/comic rollercoaster experience of Restoration plays. Vanbrugh takes advantage of this schema and these actresses to deepen audience sympathy for the unhappily married Lady Brute, even as she fires off her witty ripostes. 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. The premise of the plot, that a wife trapped in an abusive marriage might consider either leaving it or taking a lover, outraged some sections of Restoration society. A later unfinished play by Vanbrugh was completed by Colley Cibber and staged under the title The Provoked Husband in 1728. (en)
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- L'Épouse outragée (The Provoked Wife) est une comédie de la Restauration écrite par le dramaturge et architecte anglais John Vanbrugh en 1697, peu après La Rechute ou la Vertu en danger. Tout comme cette dernière, la pièce fut conçue pour la troupe théâtrale de Vanbrugh, et jouée par elle, mais elle adopte un ton différent. (fr)
- The Provoked Wife (1697) is the second original comedy written by John Vanbrugh. It made its first appearance in Lincoln's Inn Fields in May, 1697. 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). It is different in tone from his first play, the largely farcical The Relapse, and adapted to the greater acting skills of the new company of actors chosen for its premiere, who walked out not long before in a dispute with management. The actors' cooperative boasted the established star performers of the age, and Vanbrugh tailored The Provoked Wife to their specialties. While The Relapse had been robustly phrased to be suitab (en)
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