Author:Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber
(1671–1757)

Colley Cibber

Works

• Plays, 1721 vol 2
  • Vol. I. Love's last shift; or, The fool in fashion. The tragical history of King Richard the Third. Love makes a man; or, The fop's fortune. She would, and she would not; or, The kind imposter. The careless husband. -- Vol. II. The lady's last stake; or, The wife's resentment. The rival fools. The heroick daughter. The nonjuror. The refusal; or, The ladies philosophy
• The dramatic works of Colley Cibber, 1777 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 5
• An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (transcription project)
• The Contented Blind Boy
• Colley Cibber, 1900 vol 1, vol 2
• The Provoked Husband (1728), with John Vanbrugh. (external scan)

Works about Cibber

• "Colley Cibber," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 19−20), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Colley Cibber", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Cibber, Colley," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Cibber, Colley," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Cibber, Colley," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Parodies of Cibber

• A New-Year's Ode by Isaac Hawkins Browne

External links

• Colley Cibber, Apology, vol. 1
• Colley Cibber, Apology, vol. 2