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Colley Cibber
Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. 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. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while the character of a fool, which he created for the stage, gradually became the mask he wore in privat...
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I
Theophilus Cibber was an early 18th century actor, playwright and author. Cibber was a famous actor who later developed a bad reputation and was linked to several scandals. He died in a shipwreck on his way to Ireland. His authorship of The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland is disputed, since most of the text is lifted from earlier works by Gerard Langbaine and Giles Jacob. This first volume covers the lives of 58 poets including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Drummond, Middleton, Barkley, and Spencer.
