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4 days ago · Kings of England; she was daughter of William Colley, Esq. of Glasson in the county of Rutland, grand-daughter of Sir Anthony Colley, and mother of the celebrated Colley Cibber—Ob. 1697.
4 days ago · The Life of Colley Cibber, published in 1740, mentions "a famous Puppet-shew" which was formerly to be seen in Salisbury Change. n10. James Paine gained a reputation for his designs for country mansions, Kenleston Hall, completed by the brothers Adam, being one of his most important works.
3 days ago · Is not Drury Lane Theatre also intimately associated with the name of Colley Cibber, successful manager and dramatist, and for twenty-seven years Poet Laureate? His annual birthday and New Year odes, all religiously preserved in the Gentleman's Magazine , are so invariably bad that his friends asserted that he wrote them as so many jokes.
5 days ago · Constitutional ideals became prominent in the next century: to Shakespeare there were of no account […] But in this play, and in an Elizabethan view of John’s reign, the Great Charter has no place. This tableau is, therefore, a distortion of Shakespeare as bad as anything of Colley Cibber’s, and cannot be justified on historical ground […].
4 days ago · "Julius Caesar, reception of" published on by Oxford University Press.
4 days ago · In an Ontario Court of Appeal decision released this week, Justices Gary Trotter, Julie Thorburn, and Lorne Sossin overturned the convictions of Joel Roberto and Ravyn Colley, who were charged...
Jun 28, 2024 · This building lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In 1791, under Sheridan's management, the building was demolished to make way for a still larger theatre which opened in 1794.
