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

61
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1710
[by Thomas Johnson]

62
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1736
printed for Henry Lintot; and sold by W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, the Corner of Essex-Street in the Strand

63
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1731
printed for G. Williams, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster

65
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1707
printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-Street. The Double Gallant: Or, the Sick Lady's Cure. A Comedy. Written by Mr. Cibber

69
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1736
printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, and sold by W. Feales, the Corner of Essex-Street in the Strand

70
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1717
printed for R. Smith, M. Wellington, B. Lintot, T. Ward, and T. Bickerton

71
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1735
printed for W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, against St. Clement's Church in the Strand; R. Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown, and C. Corbett, at Addison's Head, both without Temple-Bar; J. Brindley, at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street; B. Lintot, J. Clark, J. Motte, T. Astley, and T. Saunders; A. Bettesworth, and F. Clay, in trust for B. Wellington

72
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1737
re-printed, and sold by George Faulkner, Bookseller, in Essex-Street, opposite to the Bridge

76
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1701
printed for Richard Parker at the Royal Exchange, Dorman Newman Leicester Feilds [sic], and George Harris in St. James's-Street

77
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1709
printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet

78
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1736
printed for J. Tonson, and J. Watts, and sold by W. Feales, the Corner of Essex-Street in the Strand

80
by Cibber, Colley
Published 1757
printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand