Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the...

champions of all things insipid, Lewis Theobald (1728 and 1732) and Colley Cibber (1742). Jean-Pierre de Crousaz, who wrote a biting commentary on Pope's...

name, "Mrs. Charlotte Charke", and identified her as the daughter of Colley Cibber. After being unsuccessful in a series of jobs associated with men at...

Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700) was a Danish sculptor, who enjoyed great success in England, and was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate Colley Cibber...

Theophilus Cibber (25 or 26 November 1703 – October 1758) was an English actor, playwright, author, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber. He began...

now performing under the name "Mrs Cibber". Even more important was the attention of her father-in-law Colley Cibber who, recognizing in Susannah the makings...

Cibber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor; father of Colley Cibber Charlotte Cibber, English...

Catherine Cibber, born Katherine Shore (baptised 1669 – 17 January 1734), was a British soprano and actor. She was called Mrs Colley Cibber and the "greatest...

Vanbrugh and Farquhar. Lowe, Robert William; Cibber, Colley (1889). An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber. London: Charles Whittingham and Co. p. 338...

An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber is a memoir by the British playwright, actor-manager and current Poet Laureate published in 1740. Popular with...

Relapse around particular actors at the Drury Lane Theatre, including Colley Cibber, who played Lord Foppington. A fop is also referred to as a "beau",...

John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift, or, The Fool in Fashion. In Cibber's Love's Last Shift, a free-living Restoration...

he added a fourth book and changed the hero from Lewis Theobald to Colley Cibber. In the fourth book of the new Dunciad, Pope expressed the view that...

Caesar in Egypt is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is inspired by Pierre Corneille's 1642 French play The Death of Pompey about...

productions, sentimental comedy grew in popularity. Playwrights like Colley Cibber and Richard Steele believed that humans were inherently good but capable...

release date 4 1 "Buffalo Story" Bernard McEveety & Vincent McEveety Colley Cibber, Calvin Clements, William Kelley, John Mantley, Katharyn M. Powers &...

fight back. The company owners, wrote the young United Company employee Colley Cibber, "had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presum'd they might...

a 1697 comedy play by the English writer Colley Cibber. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Cibber had originally written the play for the performers...

Here Pope replaced the "hero" Lewis Theobald with the Poet Laureate, Colley Cibber as "king of dunces". However, the real focus of the revised poem is...

Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696. The play is regarded as an early herald of a shift in audience...

A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune is a comedy play by the English writer Colley Cibber written and first performed in 1700, and first published in 1701. It...

1674. This building lasted nearly 120 years, under the leaderships of Colley Cibber, David Garrick and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the last of whom employed...

The Non-Juror is a 1717 comedy play by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is inspired by Molière's 1664 work Tartuffe. The original Drury Lane Theatre...

(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Salmon, Eric (2012). "Cibber, Colley (1671–1757)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)....

novelization adapted teleplays and screen stories by Calvin Clements, Colley Cibber, Howard Fast, William Kelley, John Mantley, Katharyn Michaelian, Jack...

even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757 after the death of Colley Cibber, though he declined. Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London. His father...

known surviving promptbooks created by John Wilkes Booth and uses the Colley Cibber adaptation of Shakespeare's text. The full book with the actor's handwritten...

Theatre as Jane Johnson, in 1725 she married Theophilus Cibber the son of actor-manager Colley Cibber. She had four children with him while continuing to...

Booth as Bevil Junior, Benjamin Griffin as Cimberton, Colley Cibber as Tom, Theophilus Cibber as Daniel, Sarah Thurmond as Isabella, Anne Oldfield as...

No Fury" Jack Whitman Colley Cibber & Paul Savage January 14, 1984 (1984-01-14) 11.5 13 "Deadline" Lee H. Katzin Colley Cibber & Paul Savage January 21...