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ID	3705
Last Name	Cibber
First Name	Colley
Title
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	1671-11-06
Date of Death	1757-12-12
Place of Birth	Bloomsbury
Place of Death	London
VIAF URI	http://viaf.org/viaf/51763613
Wikipedia Entry	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colley_Cibber
Image URL	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Colley_Cibber.jpg
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Role	Title	Date
Author	A letter from Mr. Cibber, to Mr. Pope, inquiring into the motives that might induce him in his satyrical works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's name.	1742
Author	A second letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope. In reply to some additional verses in his Dunciad, which he has not yet publish'd.	1743
Author	The Theatre: or, Select Works of the British Dramatic Poets. In twelve volumes. To which are prefixed, the lives of these celebrated writers, and strictures on most of the plays.	1768
Author	The New English Theatre in Twelve Volumes, containing the most valuable plays which have been acted on the London stage.	1776
Author	A collection of the most esteemed farces and entertainments performed on the British stage. A new edition.	1786
Author	Bell's British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays.	1797
Author	The British Theatre; or, A collection of plays, which are acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt books. With critical and biographical remarks, by Mrs. Inchbald. In twenty-five volumes.	1808
Author	English Comedy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Dramas, Since the Commencement of the Reformation of the Stage by Sir Richard Steele and Colley Cibber.	1810
Compiler	English Comedy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Dramas, Since the Commencement of the Reformation of the Stage by Sir Richard Steele and Colley Cibber.	1810
Author	The Modern British Drama. In five volumes.	1811
Author	The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge.	1812
Author	The English Drama, with prefatory remarks, biographical sketches, and notes, critical and explanatory; being the only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business and stage directions, as performed at the Theatres Royal. Edited by W. Oxberry, Comedian.	1818
Author	The London Stage; a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces, and interludes. Accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, and carefully collated and revised.	1824
Author	Cumberland's British Theatre, with remarks, biographical and critical. Printed from the acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, London.	1829

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"Cibber, Colley" The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Person ID 3705, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/person/3705. Accessed 2024-12-18.

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