Apology_for_the_Life_of_Colley_Cibber

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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber

1740 autobiography

An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber is a memoir by the British playwright, actor-manager and current Poet Laureate published in 1740.[1] Popular with the public, it was both an autobiography of Cibber's career and a more general history of the Restoration theatre.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    McGirr p.28
  2. [2]
    Schoch p.149

Bibliography

  • Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660–1789. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  • McGirr, Elaine M. Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber. Springer, 2016.
  • Schoch, Richard. Writing the History of the British Stage: 1660–1900. Cambridge University Press, 2016.


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