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    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...
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    Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the...
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    Also, as the title and paratexts make clear, Shamela is also a spoof against Colley Cibber's Apology (An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian)...
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    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...
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    Anne Bracegirdle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    2018. Cibber, Colley (first published 1740, ed. Robert Lowe, 1889). An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, vol.1 Archived 2011-01-11 at the Wayback...
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    The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift...
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    Love's Last Shift (category Plays by Colley Cibber)
    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...
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    University Press, 1992; p. 25. Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, With an Historical View of the Stage During His own Time: Written...
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    Restoration comedy (category The Restoration)
    Antitheatricality#Restoration theatre. Colley Cibber, first published 1740, 1976, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Bonamy...
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    0008. S2CID 144094409. Cibber, Colley (first published 1740, Everyman's Library ed. 1976). An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber. London: J. M. Dent &...
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  • 1740 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
    Occasions Christopher Pitt – The Aeneid of Virgil See also 1740 in poetry Colley Cibber – An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber February 15 – Juan Andrés...
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    The Tragical History of King Richard Iii, Alter'd From Shakespeare (1699) is a history play written by Colley Cibber. It is based on William Shakespeare's...
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    1889). An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, vol.1, vol 2. London. Melville, Lewis [pseud. for Lewis Saul Benjamin], Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth...
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    Hester Santlow (section Life)
    Cibber and which appeared in Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) and The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield. "About the year 1717," writes Cibber,...
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    Steele. The Spectator. Retrieved 19 August 2005. Cibber, Colley (first published 1740, ed. Robert Lowe, 1889). An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, vol...
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  • of National Biography. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Cibber, Colley (first published 1740, ed. Robert Lowe, 1889). An Apology for the Life of Colley...
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    John Vanbrugh (category Prisoners of the Bastille)
    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...
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    Laetitia Pilkington (category Inmates of the Marshalsea)
    money from the press, as he had previously done with his Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian. She took up lodgings opposite White's, an exclusive...
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    and a process of ignorance, and Pope picks, as his champions of all things insipid, Lewis Theobald (1728 and 1732) and Colley Cibber (1742). Jean-Pierre...
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    publisher (link) Cibber, Colley (1740). An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber etc. Dublin. Lister, Martin (1699). A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698....
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