Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber written by Colley Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of Colley Cibber written by Dorothy Senior and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1928 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of Colley Cibber written by Francesca Dorothy Ponsonby Senior and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colley Cibber written by Helene Koon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 private life. The man himself achieved fame and wealth and gained powerful friends who gave him the post of Poet Laureate. But the mask and his success brought equally powerful enemies who made him the target of their ridicule and succeeded in destroying his reputation. Since then the distorted image created by Pope and Fielding has amused generations of readers, but it does not explain how such a supposed fool remained a favorite with the public throughout his career, had more plays in the repertory than any other contemporary author, successfully managed a major theatrical company, or wrote the best theatrical history of his age. This biography looks at the man behind that distorting mask, his position in his own time, and his contribution to the theater.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Colley Cibber Etc With a Reprint of The Careless Husband and with Portraits written by Francesca Dorothy Ponsonby Senior and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE AND TIMES OF COLLEY CIBBER written by F.D.P. SENIOR and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber written by Colley Cibber and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actor, manager, and playwright Cibber was among the most influential people in 18th century London theater. This book chronicles the era's plays, playwrights, and actors, offering a glimpse into modern theater's beginnings.
Download or read book Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington written by Laetitia Pilkington and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Laetitia Van Lewen Pilkington (1709?-1750), a poet, ghostwriter, and protégée of Jonathan Swift and the playwright/stage manager Colley Cibber. Swift's first biographer by virtue of her lively portrayals of him, Pilkington remains the best chronicler of the great satirist's private life while he was at the height of his influence and creativity. Offering as well an account of Pilkington's own tumultuous and unconventional life, the Memoirs caused a scandal when they first appeared, owing to their details about her divorce and the many would-be Lotharios (most of them married) who subsequently pestered her with their attentions. Originally appearing in three volumes between 1748 and 1754, the Memoirs have been periodically reprinted and are often quoted by scholars in different disciplines. Until now, however, the work has not received serious editorial attention. In this edition, A. C. Elias Jr. has established for the first time a critical text based on the earliest and most definitive printings, which Pilkington and her son oversaw. For the first time there are explanatory notes that identify the many veiled or anonymous figures in the text and establish the reliability of each anecdote about them. Other new features include an index, a census of early editions, a full bibliography, and a chronology. This edition is produced in a two-volume format, the first comprising the actual Memoirs, and the second the commentary. Readers are at last in a position to understand exactly what Pilkington is saying in her Memoirs--and what she may be suppressing in the process. They can now approach Pilkington's Swift with confidence at each step, and appreciate her rendering of the many other real-life personages who populate her disarmingly breezy narrative: bishops, scientists, and statesmen; authors, artists, and printers; and assorted rogues, wits, bawds, and eccentrics. More than any other early-eighteenth-century woman writing in English, says Elias, Pilkington remains accessible to readers today. As a portrayal of Swift, as the recollections of a woman making her way in the male-dominated world of letters, as a source of Irish and English cultural and historical minutiae, and as a delightfully gossipy poke at social pretense, Pilkington's Memoirs are a classic of her era.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Colley Cibber written by Dorothy Senior and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1928 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LOVE S LAST SHIFT OR THE FOOL IN FASHION written by COLLEY. CIBBER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber comedian With an historical view of the stage during his own time Written by himself With a portrait written by Colley CIBBER and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber written by Colley Cibber and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1756 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber written by Colley Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber written by Colley Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke youngest daughter of Colley Cibber Written by herself With a portrait written by Charlotte CHARKE and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Partial Histories written by Elaine M. McGirr and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly partial, exposing even as they paper over gaps and biases in the archive while reflecting back modern desires and methodologies. The Colley Cibber ‘everybody knows’ has been variously constructed through the rise of English literature as both a cultural enterprise and an academic discipline, a process which made Shakespeare the ‘nation’s poet’ and canonised Cibber’s enemies Pope and Fielding; theatre history’s narrative of the birth of naturalism; and the reclamation and celebration of Charlotte Charke by women’s literary history. Each of these stories requires a Colley Cibber to be its butt, antithesis, and/or bête noir. This monograph challenges these partial histories and returns the theatre manager, playwright, poet laureate and bon viveur to the centre of eighteenth-century culture and cultural studies.
Download or read book Secret Mischief written by Robin Blake and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of a body in a pigsty, shot to death, leads Coroner Titus Cragg and Dr Luke Fidelis into a complex and baffling murder investigation. April, 1746. When County Coroner Titus Cragg is called to examine a body found shot to death at a local farm, he finds himself drawn into a bizarre and complex case where nothing is as it first appears. As he questions those who knew the victim, it becomes clear that not everyone is telling him the whole truth. Could the motive for the murder lie in a dangerous contract the dead man had signed more than twenty years before, a so-called tontine agreement? Just what does the victim's enigmatic lawyer, Ambrose Parr, know that he's not revealing? As he and Dr Luke Fidelis attempt to track down the six other signatories to the contract, Titus realizes that if they do not find answers - and fast - more violent deaths will surely follow.
