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Colley Cibber (Londra, 6 novembre 1671 – 12 novembre 1757) è stato un drammaturgo e attore teatrale inglese. Il suo colorito libro autobiografico Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740), descrive la sua vita in modo aneddotico e con uno stile abbastanza stravagante.
Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style.
Colley Cibber was an English actor, theatre manager, playwright, and poet laureate of England, whose play Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion (1696) is generally considered the first sentimental comedy, a form of drama that dominated the English stage for nearly a century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Attore e autore drammatico (Londra 1671 - ivi 1757). Gli si attribuiscono 30 opere drammatiche, tra cui le migliori sono: The careless husband (1704) e The Non-Juror (1717). La Apology for his life (1741) è un capolavoro di memorie del tempo.
Actor, playwright, theatre manager and Poet Laureate, Colley Cibber (pronounced Sibber) is the fall guy of English Literature, a man better known for the mockery he incurred than for his real achievements.
An actor-manager, dramatist and poet laureate, Cibber produced some thirty plays during his long career. From 1709 to 1733, he managed theatre companies at Drury Lane and the Queen's Theatre making him one of the first in a long line of actor-managers who dominated the London theatre scene.
In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane. Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career.
