An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber information
1740 autobiography
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
Portrait of Cibber at the front of the book.
Author
Colley Cibber
Country
Great Britain
Language
English
Genre
Autobiography
Publication date
1740
Media type
Print
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber is a memoir by the British playwright, actor-manager and current Poet Laureate published in 1740.[1] Popular with the public, it was both an autobiography of Cibber's career and a more general history of the Restoration theatre.[2]
^McGirr p.28
^Schoch p.149
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