{"id":159,"date":"2013-11-25T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2013-11-25T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:30:06","slug":"colley-cibber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/drama\/colley-cibber\/","title":{"rendered":"Colley Cibber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colley Cibber was an English actor, playwright, and Poet Laureate.\u00a0 He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Alexander Pope, among others, to criticize his \u201cmiserable mutilation\u201d and \u201chapless Shakespeare.\u201d\u00a0 He regarded himself first as an actor and he had great success in comical parts, while he was much ridiculed for his tragic parts.<\/p>\n

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Colley Cibber was an English actor, playwright, and Poet Laureate.\u00a0 He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Alexander Pope, among others, to criticize his \u201cmiserable mutilation\u201d and \u201chapless Shakespeare.\u201d\u00a0 He regarded himself first as an actor and he had great success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t