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Cibber

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Cib·ber  (sbr), Colley 1671-1757.
English playwright and theatrical manager who wrote comedies such as The Careless Husband (1704) and was appointed poet laureate in 1730. He was ridiculed by the great writers of the time, including Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.
Cibber [ˈsɪbə]
n
(Biographies / Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) M, English, THEATRE: actor, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: poet laureate) Colley (ˈkɒlɪ). 1671-1757, English actor and dramatist; poet laureate (1730-57)


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As we must perceive, that after the nicest strokes of a Shakespear or a Jonson, of a Wycherly or an Otway, some touches of nature will escape the reader, which the judicious action of a Garrick, of a Cibber, or a Clive,[*] can convey to him; so, on the real stage, the character shows himself in a stronger and bolder light than he can be described.
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