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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 298,828 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Colley Cibber is the 5,982nd most popular writer (down from 5,248th in 2019), the 5,505th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,741st in 2019) and the 615th most popular British Writer.

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  • 300k

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  • 38.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Colley Cibber ranks 5,982 out of 5,755. Before him are Russell Hoban, Woeser, Horton Foote, Dennis Prager, Ann C. Crispin, and Ronald Firbank. After him are Russell T Davies, Anne Enright, Damon Galgut, Melissa Rosenberg, Emanuel Pastreich, and Les Murray.

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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 23. Before him are Johann Samuel König, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Daniel Gran, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, and John Byng.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colley Cibber ranks 5,505 out of 7,765. Before him are Jim Crawford (1948), Richard Bauckham (1946), Ronald Firbank (1886), Warren Ellis (1968), Saint Piran (null), and Scott Carson (1985). After him are Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852), William Regal (1968), Russell T Davies (1963), George MacKay (1992), Roy Evans (1948), and Gil Merrick (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Colley Cibber ranks 615. Before him are Sophie Hannah (1971), Samuel Daniel (1562), Barry Unsworth (1930), Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914), Pippa Middleton (1983), and Ronald Firbank (1886). After him are Russell T Davies (1963), Cressida Cowell (1966), Peter Morgan (1963), James Kelman (1946), Michael Rosen (1946), and Dinah Craik (1826).

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