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Theophilus Cibber. Theophilus Cibber (25 or 26 November 1703 [1] – October 1758) was an English actor, playwright, author, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber . He began acting at an early age, and followed his father into theatrical management. In 1727, Alexander Pope satirised Theophilus Cibber in his Dunciad as a youth who "thrusts ...
The Lady's Last Stake, originally entitled Piquet: or Virtue in Danger, is a painting by William Hogarth, c. 1759. The work is a conversation piece, capturing the moment when the woman has to make a fateful decision: to be ruined financially, or morally. It was one of Hogarth's last works, commissioned by James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount ...
Colley Cibber’s son, Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758), also an actor and playwright, was born on the 26th of November 1703. In 1734 he was acting-manager at the Haymarket, and he subsequently played at Drury Lane, Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Covent Garden.
Caesar in Egypt. Caesar in Egypt is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is inspired by Pierre Corneille 's 1642 French play The Death of Pompey about Julius Caesar 's intervention in the Egyptian Civil War between Cleopatra and her brother. Cibber also incorporated elements of Plutarch and John Fletcher 's The False One. [2]
Catherine Cibber, born Katherine Shore (baptised 1669 – 17 January 1734), was a British singer and actor. She was called Mrs Colley Cibber and the "greatest English actress of her time". Life. Cibber was born in London and baptised in 1669. Her mother was Ann Shore and her father, Matthias and eventually two of her brothers (William and John ...
Genre. Comedy. She Would and She Would Not is a 1702 comedy play by the English actor-writer Colley Cibber . The original Drury Lane cast included Cibber as Don Manuel, Benjamin Husband as Don Philip, John Mills as Octavio, William Pinkethman as Trappanti, William Bullock as Soto, Susanna Verbruggen as Hypolita, Mary Hook as Rosara, Henrietta ...
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