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Name: Colley Cibber
Birth Date: November 6, 1671
Death Date: December 11, 1757
Nationality: British
Gender: Male

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Biography of Colley Cibber
5,693 words, approx. 19 pages
Actor, playwright, and theater manager, Colley Cibber was a leading figure in the eighteenth-century London theater world. As an actor, Cibber specialized in playing the fop, the man of fashion whose affectations make him a deserving candidate for...


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Colley Cibber Quotes
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Colley Cibber ( June 11 , 1671 – November 12 , 1757 ) was an English actor, playwright, Poet Laureate , first British actor-manager, and head Dunce of Alexander Pope 's Dunciad . Sourced As good be out of the world as out of the fashion. Love's Last...


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Colley Cibber Information
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Colley Cibber (pronounced /ˈkɒli ˈsɪbɚ/) (June 11, 1671 – November 12, 1757) was a British actor-manager, playwright, and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) started a British tradition of...


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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Nobility, visibility, and publicity in Colley Cibber's Apology.(Critical Essay)
06/22/2002: 7,251 words, approx. 24 pages
Just what kind of book is An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber? While this question has not perhaps been burning in the minds of most readers for some time, those who do pick up the Apology are often just as frustrated...
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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Reading the Surfaces of Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband.(Critical Essay)
06/22/2000: 7,773 words, approx. 26 pages
I do here think fit to inform the Reader, that in such Conclusions as these, Reason is certainly in the Right; and that in most Corporeal Beings, which have fallen under my Cognizance, the Outside hath been infinitely preferable to the In: Whereof...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Leonard R. N. Ashley
20,270 words, approx. 68 pages
In the following excerpt, Ashley provides a comprehensive survey of Cibber's theatrical efforts.
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Critical Essay by Helga Drougge
10,478 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Drougge charges that although Cibber presents his plays as realism, they are actually sentimentalism: “wishfulfilment fantasies offered as instruction, unreal behaviour offered as psychology, submissive eloquence offered as logic.”
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Critical Essay by Kristina Straub
9,345 words, approx. 31 pages
In this essay, Straub examines the eighteenth-century practice of gendering literary authority as masculine and in that context focuses on Cibber's unusual use of the sexually ambiguous figure of the schoolboy to construct an alternative model of authority.
 


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