Colley Cibber

(1671-1757)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757 NRA: Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) actor, dramatist DNB: Cibber, Colley (1671-1757), actor, writer, and theatre manager LBT ID: CoCibbe1757 VIAF ID: 51763613 LOC ID: n80005833	B/BAP: 1671-11-06 DIED: 1757-12-12
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English actor, playwright, and much-ridiculed poet-laureate; he was the author of The Careless Husband (1704) and An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740).
REFERENCES TO Colley Cibber: James Thomson to William Cranstoun, [September 1725] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 6 Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 12 September 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Verse 1: p. 95a Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 29 December 1814 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Elder dramatists; Goethe's Faust Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 15 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 29 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 28 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1813 Verse 1: p. 95a Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIX. 1814-1815 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Life of Thomson Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 21 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VI 1792-1803 Found 1: ¶ 11 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 2 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VIII. 1850 Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829