Colley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling st
Colley Cibber c. 1740, painted plaster bust, National Portrait Gallery, London
Title page of Cibber's Apology
Colley Cibber plays the part of Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's Restoration comedy The Relapse
The Refusal, Or, The Ladies Philosophy is a 1721 comedy play by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is a reworking of the 1672 farce Les Femmes Savantes by Molière, with reference to the recent South