Which restoration dramatist was also responsible for designing Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard?
Blenheim Palace was an untrained architect, who usually worked in conjunction with the trained and practical Nicholas Hawksmoor. The duo had recently completed the first stages of the Baroque Castle Howard. This huge Yorkshire mansion was one of England's first houses in the flamboyant European Baroque style. The success of Castle Howard led Marlborough to commission something similar at Woodstock. Blenheim, however, was not to provide Vanbrugh with the architectural plaudits he imagined it would. The fight over funding led to accusations of extravagance and impracticality of design, many of these charges levelled by the Whig factions in power. He found no
James Howard (dramatist) James Howard (dramatist) James Howard (c. 1640 – July 1669) was an English dramatist and member of a Royalist family during the English Civil War and the Restoration. He was the eighth son of Thomas Howard and , daughter of James, Lord of Heenvliet, Holland, and grandson of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1584–1640), and Elizabeth Home (d. 1633), daughter of the earl of Dunbar. Howard wrote two comedies, "All Mistaken", or "the Mad Couple", (c.1667), and "The English Mounsieur" (1666). Both of these starred Nell Gwynn, the mistress of Charles II. Howard had three brothers who also wrote