Cibber, Colley

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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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 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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