An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber by Colley Cibber

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As an actor, manager, and playwright, Colley Cibber was among the most influential members of the London theater in the 18th century. In this book, he not only defended himself against personal attacks from such well-known figures as Johnson, Fielding, and Pope, but also produced one of the most important and indispensable accounts of a vital period in English theatrical history. Cibber accurately chronicles the plays, playwrights, and actors of the day in unstinting detail, affording show more theater lovers and historians an incomparable glimpse of the beginnings of modern theater. show less

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This autobiography brings to life the theater scene of the Restoration in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Cibber talks a great deal about his friends, fellow actors and society people in a kind and chatty way.

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