| Front | George Buckingham |
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| Back | 1628-87 dramatist having observed the excess of heroic tragedy in the restoration theater, he wrote perhaps in collaboration with Samuel Butler and others, burlesques of the style. the Rehearsal 1671 , long outlived the dramatic taste it satirized , providing a model a century later for Sheridan's the Critic 1779. Dryden , mocked in the person of Bayes, took his revenge on Buckingham by portraying him as Zimiri in Absalom and Achitophel the only other of Buckingham 's dramatic work to merit attention is his adaptation of John Fletcher's the Chances 1667 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, KG (/ˈvɪlərz/;[1][2] 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and possibly also a lover of King James I of England.[3][4] Despite a patchy political and military record, Buckingham remained at the height of royal favour for the first three years of the reign of King Charles I, until a disgruntled army officer assassinated him. |
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