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- Cibber was the crass authority figure against whom the rebellious youth took up arms, but also the man who made it possible for Fielding to make his theatrical debut in Drury Lane at a time when the majority of novice playwrights were rejected outright.
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Variously lampooned as Marplay, Sir Farcical Comic, Ground Ivy, and Conny Keyber, Colley Cibber famously provided Henry Fielding with much comic fuel at the start of his career.
Cibber was the crass authority figure against whom the rebellious youth took up arms, but also the man who made it possible for Fielding to make his theatrical debut in Drury Lane at a time when the majority of novice playwrights were rejected outright.
His diffuse and chatty writing style, conventional in poetry and sometimes incoherent in prose, was bound to look even worse in contrast to stylists like Pope. Henry Fielding satirically tried Cibber for murder of the English language in the 17 May 1740 issue of The Champion.
Mar 18, 2019 · In 1740, Cibber published his autobiography, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian, which only further inflamed his enemies against him. Case in point: on May 17 of that year, Henry Fielding, under the name Captain Hercules Vinegar, published a piece in The Champion called “The Tryal of Colley Cibber, Comedian, &c.
An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber: a new edition. Alexander Pope thought he was dullness incarnate; Henry Fielding accused him of murdering the English Language; Aaron Hill compared his acting to ‘the heavings of a disjointed caterpillar’.
This fictional event mirrors Fielding's own life when Colley Cibber and Robert Wilks of the Theatre Royal rejected The Temple Beau. Cibber was an inspiration for the character of Marplay and Wilks for Sparkish, but Sparkish does not appear in the revised version of 1734, after Wilks's death.
Apr 18, 2024 · In 1700 Cibber produced his famous adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, which held the stage as the preferred acting version of that play until the original version was restored by the actor Henry Irving in 1871.
