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Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style.
Apr 18, 2024 · Colley Cibber was an English actor, theatre manager, playwright, and poet laureate of England, whose play Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696) is generally considered the first sentimental comedy, a form of drama that dominated the English stage for nearly a century.
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Learn about the first theatrical autobiography in English, written by a controversial actor, playwright and Poet Laureate. This blog post introduces the book by David Roberts, which offers a modernized text and detailed annotations of Cibber's life and work.
Learn about the life and works of Colley Cibber, a prominent actor, playwright, and manager in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Find out how he was mocked by Pope, Fielding, and Johnson for his sentimental comedies and Whig politics.
Published long after he had won acclaim as a playwright, the 1740 edition of An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber was immensely popular: full of gossip, digressions, unsubstantiated ...
Colley Cibber 1671-1757. Colley Cibber was born in Bloomsbury, London, the eldest son of a distinguished Danish sculptor. He was given his mother’s maiden name as his Christian name. He was educated at the King’s School, Grantham where his mother had previously lived, leaving at the age of sixteen.
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was a versatile and controversial figure in the English theatre and literature. He was known for his adaptations of Shakespeare, his role as Poet Laureate, and his feud with Alexander Pope.
