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An Apology for the Life of MR Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre Royal: A Modernized Text

An Apology for the Life of MR Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre Royal: A Modernized Text

Roberts, David

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ISBN10: 1009098365
ISBN13: 9781009098366
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 21 2022
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Colley Cibber was one of the most derided men in eighteenth-century London. Mocked for his work in the theatre and as Poet Laureate, he was nevertheless a prolific actor and playwright, and co-managed the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for 24 years. His response to his critics, An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, is often described as the first theatrical autobiography, and even as the first secular autobiography in English. But what kind of text is it - intimate confession or cunning pose? History of the stage or political polemic? Rambling or purposeful? Or perhaps, even, the first celebrity memoir? Including comprehensive notes and a detailed scholarly introduction, this modernised text makes Cibber's enigmatic literary landmark accessible to a wide readership for the first time and allows both specialists and general readers to explore Cibber's extraordinary career against the rich, turbulent background of London theatre in the eighteenth century.

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