Colley Cibber

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. 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 mutilation" of "crucified Molière [and] hapless Shakespeare".

He regarded himself as first and foremost an actor and had great popular success in comical fop parts, while as a tragic actor he was persistent but much ridiculed. Cibber's brash, extroverted personality did not sit well with his contemporaries, and he was frequently accused of tasteless theatrical productions, shady business methods, and a social and political opportunism that was thought to have gained him the laureateship over far better poets. He rose to ignominious fame when he became the chief target, the head Dunce, of Alexander Pope's satirical poem ''The Dunciad''.

Cibber's poetical work was derided in his time and has been remembered only for being poor. His importance in British theatre history rests on his being one of the first in a long line of actor-managers, on the interest of two of his comedies as documents of evolving early 18th-century taste and ideology, and on the value of his autobiography as a historical source. Provided by Wikipedia

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by Cibber, Colley
Published 1707
printed for Bernard Lintott, between the two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet

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by Cibber, Colley
Published 1792
printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British Library, Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

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by Cibber, Colley
Published 1735
printed for W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, the Corner of Essex-Street in the Strand; and the book-sellers of London and Westminster

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by Cibber, Colley
Published 1754
printed for J. Jolliffe in St. James's-Street

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by Cibber, Colley
Published 1718
printed for B. Lintot, at the Cross-Keys in Fleetstreet

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by Lillo, George
Published 1740
Printed for J. Gray
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by Lillo, George
Published 1766
Printed for H. Woodfall
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by Vanbrugh, John
Published 1780
at the Shakespeare Press, by the Etheringtons; for J. Bell, at the British Library, in the Strand
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by Vanbrugh, John
Published 1748
printed by and for John Watts at the Printing Office in Wild Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields
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by Hippisley, John
Published 1752
printed for J. Dous [sic]; and J. Jones
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by Forde, Brownlow
Published 1771
printed by George Stevenson
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by Lillo, George
Published 1793
Printed at the Apollo press, in Boston, by Belknap and Hall, sold by the booksellers in town and country
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by Dogget, Thomas
Published 1720
Printed for A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row, E. Curll in Fleet-Street, and W. Chetwood in Covent-Garden
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by Lillo, George
Published 1794
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas. Sold at his bookstore in Worcester. Sold also by said Thomas, and Andrews, no. 45, Newburystreet, Boston; and by said Thomas, and Carlisle, Walpole, in Newhampshire
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