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Colley Cibber

1671 - 1757

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Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his "miserable mutilation" of "crucified Molière [and] hapless Shakespeare". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colley Cibber has received more than 314,730 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Colley Cibber is the 6,582nd most popular writer (down from 5,958th in 2019), the 5,922nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,492nd in 2019) and the 679th most popular British Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

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  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

She wou'd and she wou'd not
1702
The non-juror
1718
The tragical history of King Richard III
1731
Love makes a man
1701
The careless husband
1704
Damon and Phillida
Librettos, Operas, Ballad operas
1729

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Colley Cibber ranks 6,582 out of 7,302. Before him are M. H. Abrams, Jenni Haukio, Brian Stableford, Vin Scully, Grant Morrison, and Mitch Albom. After him are Arnon Grunberg, Karen Joy Fowler, MacKinlay Kantor, David Gerrold, Sophie Hannah, and Sabina Berman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Colley Cibber ranks 19. Before him are Luigi Guido Grandi, Antoine Forqueray, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, and Alivardi Khan.  Among people deceased in 1757, Colley Cibber ranks 25. Before him are Vakhushti of Kartli, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Daniel Gran, and John Byng.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colley Cibber ranks 5,922 out of 8,785. Before him are Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone (1854), Frank Hornby (1863), Brian Stableford (1948), Zawe Ashton (1984), Grant Morrison (1960), and Suki Waterhouse (1992). After him are Rupert Sanders (1971), Eric Caldow (1934), Keith Greene (1938), Sophie Hannah (1971), Max Sciandri (1967), and Francis Pym (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Colley Cibber ranks 679. Before him are Cressida Cowell (1966), Irving Finkel (1951), Mo Hayder (1962), R. S. Thomas (1913), Brian Stableford (1948), and Grant Morrison (1960). After him are Sophie Hannah (1971), Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), Al Alvarez (1929), William Collins (1721), Louis de Bernières (1954), and Mary Russell Mitford (1787).

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