The 'Relapse' by John Vanbrugh was written as a sequel/response to which play by Colley Cibber?
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Correct answer: Love's Last Shift, by Colley Cibber
Cibber's 'Love's Last Shift' (1696) ended with a rake reforming and becoming a faithful husband. Vanbrugh, skeptical of such abrupt moral conversion, wrote 'The Relapse' (1696) as a cynical sequel showing the character quickly reverting to his dissolute ways.
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