Cibber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor; father of Colley Cibber
Charlotte Cibber, English actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and noted transvestite
Colley Cibber, British actor, playwright, and Poet Laureate; father of Charlotte and Theophilus Cibber
Susannah Maria Cibber, English singer and actress; wife of Theophilus Cibber
Theophilus Cibber, English actor, playwright and author
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Cibber is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor; father of Colley Cibber Charlotte Cibber, English...
Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the...
Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700) was a Danish sculptor, who enjoyed great success in England, and was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate...
Theophilus Cibber (25 or 26 November 1703 – October 1758) was an English actor, playwright, author, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber. He began...
Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne; February 1714 – 30 January 1766) was a celebrated English singer and actress. She was the sister of the composer Thomas...
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...
Catherine Cibber, born Katherine Shore (baptised 1669 – 17 January 1734), was a British singer and actor. She was called Mrs Colley Cibber and the "greatest...
Jane Cibber (née Johnson; 1704/1706 — 1733) was a British stage actress. She was born in 1704 or 1706 as Jane Johnson. Her guardian was the writer Richard...
example of the so-called Frenchified fop is Sir Novelty Fashion in Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift (1696). Fop characters appear in many Restoration comedies...
champions of all things insipid, Lewis Theobald (1728 and 1732) and Colley Cibber (1742). Jean-Pierre de Crousaz, who wrote a biting commentary on Pope's...
Charlotte Charke (née Cibber, also Charlotte Secheverell, aka Charles Brown) was an English actress, playwright, novelist, and autobiographer. She began...
Aphra Behn and John Vanbrugh Sentimental comedy, as practiced by Colley Cibber and Richard Steele Shakespearean comedy, as practiced by William Shakespeare...
Otago Library - The Office of the Poet Laureate: Laurence Eusden & Colley Cibber". Archived from the original on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2012...
and was used in adaptations throughout the next 200 years: Theophilus Cibber's adaptation of 1744, and David Garrick's of 1748 both used variations on...
style, including a sequel under the title Polly. Henry Fielding, Colley Cibber, Arne, Dibdin, Arnold, Shield, Jackson of Exeter, Hook and many others produced...
and whose work is in the collection include Nicholas Stone, Caius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons, John Michael Rysbrack, Louis-François Roubiliac, Peter...
offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757 after the death of Colley Cibber, though he declined. Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London. His father...
back. The company owners, wrote the young United Company employee Colley Cibber, "had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presum'd they might...
Drury Lane in 1723, in an adapted form called Love in a Forest; Colley Cibber played Jaques. Another Drury Lane production seventeen years later returned...
two men he named to the role of poet laureate, Laurence Eusden and Colley Cibber. They defended Walpole from the charge of evil political corruption by arguing...
surviving promptbooks created by John Wilkes Booth and uses the Colley Cibber adaptation of Shakespeare's text. The full book with the actor's handwritten...
role. Theatre manager Tate Wilkinson declared that next to Susannah Maria Cibber, Elizabeth Satchell (of the famous Kemble family) was the best Ophelia he...
her court. Oldfield became one of Drury Lane's leading actresses. Colley Cibber acknowledged that she had as much as he to do with the success of his The...
adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding. Fielding eventually ran his own puppet theatre...
spectacular and elaborate theatrical effects as far as possible. Colley Cibber, David Garrick and others competed with Rich and produced their own pantomimes...
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