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A Short Biography of Colley Cibber

Author Name:

Colley Cibber

Born As:

Colley Cibber

Other Names:

Colley Cibber

Born:

11 Jun 1671

Died:

12 Nov 1757




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Dramatist, actor and Poet Laureate                          
Selected Works:

Plays:

The plays below were produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane unless otherwise stated.

Love's Last Shift - Comedy, 1696
Woman's Wit - Comedy, 1697
Xerxes - Tragedy, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1699
Love Makes a Man - Comedy, 1701
The School Boy - Comedy - 1702
She Would and She Would Not - Comedy - 1702
The Careless Husband - Comedy - 1704
Perolla and Izadora - Tragedy - 1705
The Comical Lovers - Comedy, Haymarket - 1707
The Double Gallant - Comedy, Haymarket - 1707
The Lady's Last Stake - Comedy, Haymarket - 1707
The Rival Fools - Comedy, 11 January 1709
The Rival Queans - Comical-Tragedy, Haymarket -  1710
Ximena - Tragedy - 1712
Venus and Adonis - Masque - 1715
Bulls and Bears - Farce - 1715
The Refusal - Comedy - 1721
Cæsar in Egypt - Tragedy - 1724
The Provoked Husband - with Vanbrugh, comedy - 1728
Love in a Riddle - Pastoral - 1729
Damon and Phillida - Pastoral Farce, Haymarket, 1729

Cibber also adapted Shakespeare's Richard III - 1699, 
King John as Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John - 1745 and Molière's Tartuffe as The Nonjuror - 1717.                          
Mother 
Father Caius Gabriel Cibber
Wife Katherine Shore