The Relapse
The Relapse is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift, or, The Fool in Fashion. In Love’s last Shift, a free-living Restoration rake is brought to repentance and reform by the ruses of his wife. In The Relapse, the rake succumbs again to temptation and has a...