 Portrait of Cibber at the front of the book. | |
| Author | Colley Cibber |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publication date | 1740 |
| Publication place | Great Britain |
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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber is a memoir by the British playwright, actor-manager and current Poet Laureate published in 1740. Popular with the public, it was both an autobiography of Cibber's career and a more general history of the Restoration theatre.
References
- McGirr p.28
- 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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