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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.
Synopsis. After just two years of marriage, Loveless grew tired of his wife, Amanda, and abandoned her to travel the continent and fritter away his fortune on women and drink. He returns to London, poor and starving.
Keeping Rogers as Amanda was not a problem, since she was not an actress that the companies fought over, but holding on to John Verbruggen and Colley Cibber posed challenges, to which Rich rose with energetic campaigns of bribery and re-seduction.
The Relapse was written in 1696 by John Vanbrugh as a sequel to Colley Cibber’s comedy Love’s Last Shift (1696). Amanda, Loveless, and Lord Foppington (known as Sir Novelty Fashion in Love’s Last Shift) are the only characters to feature in both plays.
Woman to Amanda. Maid to Flareit. Colley Cibber played Sir Novelty Fashion in the original 1688 production. Synopsis. Love's Last Shift is the story of a last "shift" or trick that a virtuous wife, Amanda, is driven to, in order to reform and retain her out-of-control rakish husband Loveless.
Aug 15, 2024 · No one but Cibber has so far recognized as well, that it is not only the fifth act conversion that is the distinguishing sentimental mark of Love's Last Shift, but the presence of Amanda, and...
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Aug 15, 2024 · Amanda's trouble is that she is not patient enough. She resents her husband's infidelities and when he found that he “cou'd not Whore in quiet” (V ii 52), 4 Loveless left her.
