Colley Cibber Summary

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 ... Read more

In the following excerpt from a work that was originally published in 1953, Boas surveys Cibber's career as a playwright, paying particular attention to The Careless Husband, The Non-Juror, and... Read more

In the following excerpt, Ashley provides a comprehensive survey of Cibber's theatrical efforts. Colley Cibber was writing plays before Vanbrugh and Farquhar, and he did not stage his last w... Read more

In this essay, Potter demonstrates how Cibber himself created the fop persona that was often used by his enemies to mock him. It is to Pope that most readers owe their image of Colley Cibber the ca... Read more

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 ... Read more

In this excerpt from his study of sentimental comedy throughout the eighteenth century, Ellis considers Love's Last Shift as one of the earliest works in the genre, although he argues that only... Read more