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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber


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Contains the best account of the theatre of his day and is an invaluable study of the art of acting as it was practiced by his contemporaries.







The Comical Lovers, a Comedy, Acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq


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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T000108 An adaptation by Colley Cibber of the comic scenes from Dryden's 'Secret love' and 'Marriage à la mode'. Also issued as part of: 'The dramatick works of Colley Cibber' vol. 2, London, 1754. London: printed for Henry Lintot, 1754. 82p.; 12°







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