An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Colley Cibber
- First Published: 1740
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: Late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Colley Cibber, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, John Gay, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Pope
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, London, Drama or dramatists, Dramatic criticism
- Locales: England
To read Colley Cibber’s APOLOGY is to recapture intimate views of London theatrical, social, and literary life during the last decade of the seventeenth and the first quarter of the following century, as observed by a successful actor and theatrical manager, a playwright of sorts, and a man of shrewd insight into his own foibles and those of his fellows.
Published ten years after his retirement from the stage (1730) and his acceptance of the poet laureateship, this autobiography is a frank and engaging account of his childhood experiences as the son of a well-known...
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