Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636244
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
This volume provides the first new edition of Cibber's plays since 1777, and the first edition ever published that includes all of his known plays and that incorporates his extensive and often complex revisions. This modern-spelling edition features a comprehensive general introduction to Cibber's career, and separate introductions for each play, detailing sources, performance data, and publication history. Annotations and textual notes are included to allow for additional study.
The Plays of Colley Cibber
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636244
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
This volume provides the first new edition of Cibber's plays since 1777, and the first edition ever published that includes all of his known plays and that incorporates his extensive and often complex revisions. This modern-spelling edition features a comprehensive general introduction to Cibber's career, and separate introductions for each play, detailing sources, performance data, and publication history. Annotations and textual notes are included to allow for additional study.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636244
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
This volume provides the first new edition of Cibber's plays since 1777, and the first edition ever published that includes all of his known plays and that incorporates his extensive and often complex revisions. This modern-spelling edition features a comprehensive general introduction to Cibber's career, and separate introductions for each play, detailing sources, performance data, and publication history. Annotations and textual notes are included to allow for additional study.
Colley Cibber
Author: Helene Koon
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318522X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane. Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while the character of a fool, which he created for the stage, gradually became the mask he wore in private life. The man himself achieved fame and wealth and gained powerful friends who gave him the post of Poet Laureate. But the mask and his success brought equally powerful enemies who made him the target of their ridicule and succeeded in destroying his reputation. Since then the distorted image created by Pope and Fielding has amused generations of readers, but it does not explain how such a supposed fool remained a favorite with the public throughout his career, had more plays in the repertory than any other contemporary author, successfully managed a major theatrical company, or wrote the best theatrical history of his age. This biography looks at the man behind that distorting mask, his position in his own time, and his contribution to the theater.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318522X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane. Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while the character of a fool, which he created for the stage, gradually became the mask he wore in private life. The man himself achieved fame and wealth and gained powerful friends who gave him the post of Poet Laureate. But the mask and his success brought equally powerful enemies who made him the target of their ridicule and succeeded in destroying his reputation. Since then the distorted image created by Pope and Fielding has amused generations of readers, but it does not explain how such a supposed fool remained a favorite with the public throughout his career, had more plays in the repertory than any other contemporary author, successfully managed a major theatrical company, or wrote the best theatrical history of his age. This biography looks at the man behind that distorting mask, his position in his own time, and his contribution to the theater.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.
An Appreciation of Colley Cibber
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
An Appreciation of Colley Cibber, Actor and Dramatist
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486414720
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Actor, manager, and playwright Cibber was among the most influential people in 18th century London theater. This book chronicles the era's plays, playwrights, and actors, offering a glimpse into modern theater's beginnings.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486414720
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Actor, manager, and playwright Cibber was among the most influential people in 18th century London theater. This book chronicles the era's plays, playwrights, and actors, offering a glimpse into modern theater's beginnings.
Studies in the Work of Colley Cibber
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Life and Times of Colley Cibber
Author: Dorothy Senior
Publisher: London : Constable
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher: London : Constable
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.
An Appreciation of Colley Cibber, Actor and Dramatist
Author: Colley Cibber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description