An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber: With an Historical View of the Stage During His Own Time (Dover Books on Literature and Drama) - Softcover

Colley Cibber

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ISBN 10: 0486414728 ISBN 13: 9780486414720

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2000

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As an actor, manager, and playwright, Colley Cibber was among the most influential members of the London theater in the 18th century. In this book, he not only defended himself against personal attacks from such well-known figures as Johnson, Fielding, and Pope, but also produced one of the most important and indispensable accounts of a vital period in English theatrical history. Cibber accurately chronicles the plays, playwrights, and actors of the day in unstinting detail, affording theater lovers and historians an incomparable glimpse of the beginnings of modern theater.

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Poetry collections by James Wright (1927-80) include "The Green Wall "(1957), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, "Saint Judas" (1959), "The Branch Will Not Break" (1963), "Shall We Gather at the River" (1968), and "Two Citizens" (1973). Wright was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1971, and the following year his "Collected Poems" received the Pulitzer Prize. He died in New York City in 1980, having served on the English faculties at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and Hunter College (CUNY).

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