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Cibber, Colley

Born: 1671 AD
Died: 1757 AD, at 86 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Actors, Playwrights

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English actor and dramatist

 

wrote plays "Love's Last Shift" 1696, "She Would and She Would Not" 1702, "The Careless Husband" 1728

 

British poet laureate 1730-1757

 

subject of Alexander Pope's poem "The Dunciad"






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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (Dover Books on Literature and Drama)
by Colley Cibber (Paperback - Sep 18, 2000)
As an actor, manager, and playwright, Colley Cibber was among the most influential members of the 18th century London theater.Apology for the Life of Colley Cibberis an indispensable account of the...
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A compleat key to The Non-juror: Explaining the characters in that play, with observations thereon
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Colley Cibber: A Biography
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Sawney and Colley (1742) and other Pope pamphlets
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