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Cibber, Colley
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...Colley Cibber (sĬb´ər), 1671–1757, English dramatist and actor...the theater of this period. See R. H. Barker, Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane (1939); L. Ashley, Colley Cibber (1965).Both his son, Theophilus Cibber, 1703......
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Vanbrugh, Sir John
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......first play, The Relapse (1696), was a counterblast to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift. Vanbrugh's masterpiece...Confederacy (1705) and A Journey to London (completed by Cibber as The Provoked Husband, 1728). He was knighted in......
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Clive, Kitty
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......1711–85, English singer and actress. She made her debut (c.1728) at Drury Lane under the management of Colley Cibber and worked for many years with David Garrick, with whom she never got along. Her charm, wit, and vivacity, linked......
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Pope, Alexander
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......enemies, including Lewis Theobald, the critic who had ridiculed Pope's edition of Shakespeare, and the playwright Colley Cibber; Imitations of Horace (1733–38), satirizing social follies and political corruption; An Essay on Man (1734......
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Vanloo
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......painted the portraits of Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska. In London, where he was highly acclaimed, he did portraits of Colley Cibber, Sir Robert Walpole, and others. He was also known for his historical paintings and frescoes. His brother, Carle......
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Bracegirdle, Anne
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...Anne Bracegirdle, 1663?–1748, English actress. A pupil of Betterton, she was the delight of Colley Cibber and the favorite of Congreve, achieving her greatest successes as the heroines of Congreve's comedies, which were written for......
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Oldfield, Anne
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......The successor of Mrs. Bracegirdle, she first won acclaim in 1704 for her brilliant portrayal of Lady Modish in Colley Cibber's Careless Husband. She had a triumphant career in both tragedy and comedy, being noted for her majestic and powerful......
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poet laureate
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......1688–92), Nahum Tate (1692–1715), Nicholas Rowe (1715–18), Laurence Eusden (1718–30), Colley Cibber (1730–57), William Whitehead (1757–85), Thomas Warton (1785–90), Henry Pye (1790–1813......