The Confederacy is a 1705 comedy play by the English writer John Vanbrugh.[2] It is also known as The City Wives' Confederacy. The plot was inspired by a 1692 farce by the French writer Florent Carton Dancourt. Two years before Vanbrugh's work, another writer, Richard Estcourt had produced another play, The Fair Example based on Dancourt's original.
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