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Cibber, Colley - sĭbˈər, 1671–1757, English dramatist and actor-manager. Joining the company at the Theatre Royal in 1690, Cibber became successful as a comedian, playing the fops of Restoration comedy. His first play, Love's Last Shift (1696), is a landmark in the history of the theater and is regarded as the first sentimental comedy. Of his 30 dramas, She Wou'd and

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The Life and Times of Colley Cibber » Read Now
by Dorothy Senior. 286 pgs.

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...THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COLLEY CIBBER -ii- Colley Obber as Lord Foppington...Simon THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COLLEY CIBBER BY F. DOROTHY SENIOR...177 F. THE TRYAL OF COLLEY...
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Studies in the Work of Colley Cibber » Read Now
by De Witt C. Croissant. 72 pgs.

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...STUDIES IN THE WORK OF COLLEY CIBBER CONTENTS Comedy PREFACE...1912. STUDIES IN THE WORK OF COLLEY CIBBER De Witt C. Croissant I NOTES ON CIBBERS PLAYS Colley Cibbers...
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Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane » Read Now
by Richard Hindry Barker. 282 pgs.

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...In preparing this life of Colley Cibber I have received invaluable assistance...LANE I. EARLY YEARS I COLLEY CIBBERS father, Caius Gabriel Cibber...On January 20, 1703, his...
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Nobility, Visibility and Publicity in Colley Cibber's Apology, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Brian Glover. 16 pgs.

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The Importance of Being Easy: Desire and Cibber's the Careless Husband, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Stephen Szilagyi. 18 pgs.

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...throughout the eighteenth century, Colley Cibber The Careless Husband ( 1704...consistent moral tone is offensive." Colley Cibber , rev. ed. (Boston: Twayne...Sullivans...
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Reading the Surfaces of Colley Cibber's the Careless Husband, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Beth Kowaleski Wallace. 16 pgs.

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Cibber's the Careless Husband, in Explicator » Read Now
by James E. Tierney. 3 pgs.

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...just this piece of apparel that Colley Cibber, another veteran of Williams army...Careless Husband ( 1704 ). But in Cibbers hands, the steinkirk develops from...finds him...
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The Poets Laureate (Chap. 7 "Colley Cibber") » Read Now
by Kenneth Hopkins. 295 pgs.

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...LAURENCE EUSDEN 62 7 COLLEY CIBBER 68 8 WILLIAM...Song 228 Mr. Colley Cibbers Epitaph on Mr. Pope 229 On...near-contemporary accounts include T. Cibber in his Lives of the...
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Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology (Chap. IV "Men from Boys: Cibber, Pope, and the Schoolboy") » Read Now
by Kristina Straub. 194 pgs.

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From the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination: actors were frequently suspected of heterosexual promiscuity or labeled effeminate or even as sodomites, and actresses were often viewed as...
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From the Restoration through the eighteenth century, the sexuality of actors and actresses was written about in ways that stirred the public imagination: actors were frequently suspected of heterosexual promiscuity or labeled effeminate or even as sodomites, and actresses were often viewed as prostitutes or sexually ambivalent victims of their profession. This depiction of players, argues Kristina Straub, greatly shaped public debates over what made women feminine and men masculine. Considering a wide range of literature by or about players--pamphlets, newspaper reports, theatrical histories, biographies, as well as the public correspondence between Alexander Pope and the famous actor Colley Cibber--she examines the formation of gender roles and sexual identities during a period crucial to modern thinking on these issues. Drawing from feminist-materialist and gay and lesbian theories and historiographies, Straub analyzes the complex development of spectacle and spectatorship as gendered concepts. She also reveals how national, racial, and class differences contributed to the subjection of players as professional spectacles and how images of race, class, and gender combined to create divisions between normal and deviant sexuality.
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Richard's Himself Again: A Stage History of Richard III (Chap. 2 "Cibber's Richard III") » Read Now
by Scott Colley. 292 pgs.

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No play has enjoyed a richer and more varied performance history than Shakespeare's Richard III. Among the actors who have left memorable marks on the role of Richard of Gloucester are David Garrick, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, Edwin Booth, John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, and Antony...
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No play has enjoyed a richer and more varied performance history than Shakespeare's Richard III. Among the actors who have left memorable marks on the role of Richard of Gloucester are David Garrick, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, Edwin Booth, John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, and Antony Sher. This dynamic stage history covers all major English and American interpretations of this capitivating drama from the late 1690s to the present day, exploring the significance of changing theatrical fashions and practices. Colley deftly utilizes volumes of source materials to bring performances of the past to life.
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The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds (Chap. 3 "Mr. Pope Confers Immortality upon the Unworthy Mr. Colley Cibber") » Read Now
by Myrick Land. 244 pgs.

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...whose concentrated attacks kept Colley Cibber and other minor eighteenth-century...Immortality upon the Unworthy Mr. Colley Cibber 33 4 "I Beg You...laureate England had...
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Humor in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide ("Colley Cibber (1671-1757)" begins on p. 31) » Read Now
by Don L. F. Nilsen. 298 pgs.

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During the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, there was a wide range of literary humor. Much of this humor was satiric, ranging from the sharp barbs of Pope and Swift to the more subtle but stinging wordplay of Addison. In the 18th century, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne wrote humorous...
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During the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, there was a wide range of literary humor. Much of this humor was satiric, ranging from the sharp barbs of Pope and Swift to the more subtle but stinging wordplay of Addison. In the 18th century, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne wrote humorous novels, in which they satirized society. During the 19th century, writers such as Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Carlyle continued to use humor to comment on the issues of their day. This reference book examines how British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries used humor in their works. An introductory chapter overviews humor in British literature of the era, and sections then treat humor in British literature of the 18th century and in three periods of the 19th century. Each of these sections includes a short introduction, followed by chronologically arranged profiles of various authors. Each profile discusses how the author used humor and includes extensive bibliographic information.
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