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  1. Colley Cibber
    a biography
    Author: Koon, Helene
    Published: 1986; © 1986
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813115511; 9780813159041
    Subjects: Dramatists, English; Actors; Theatrical managers
    Other subjects: Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
    Scope: 1 online resource (266 pages), illustrations
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  2. Colley Cibber
    a biography
    Published: ©2015
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

    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... more

    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    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 t

     

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