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Colley Cibber. Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757 [1]) 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. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were ...
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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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An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, published in 1740 when Cibber was 68 and enjoying retirement,has a strong claim to be not simply the first theatrical autobiography in English, but the first secular autobiography. But ‘autobiography’ isn’t quite the right word. The Apology does not dig deep into Cibber’s personal life ...
Jun 8, 2020 · Colley Cibber If ever there was a case of success and fame being the result of luck, rather than talent, then Colley Cibber is it. He was an awful poet who became Poet Laureate through his political connections; a middling actor who connived to became a pioneering actor-manager in Drury Lane; and an unscrupulous and divisive man whose ...
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Colley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his "miserable ...
Born in London, on Nov. 6, 1671, Colley Cibber was the son of the sculptor Caius Gabriel Cibber. He began his acting career in 1690 with Thomas Betterton’s company at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. Marrying three years later and finding his earnings as an actor inadequate, he wrote Love’s Last Shift to provide himself with a role.
Learn about the life and career of Colley Cibber, a remarkable actor, playwright, and playhouse manager who was the target of Pope's and Johnson's criticism. Find out how he wrote sentimental comedy, adapted Shakespeare, and became a Whig politician and poet laureate.
