Partial Histories A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber
This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional fop, defacer of Shakespeare and the cruel and unforgiving father of Charlotte Charke. But these portraits of Cibber are doubly part
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A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber
Elaine M. McGirr
Partial Histories
Elaine M. McGirr
Partial Histories A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber
Elaine M. McGirr Department of Drama and Theatre Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-02718-4 ISBN 978-1-137-02719-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-02719-1
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book has been a labour of love. It has taken twice as long as it was meant to, but the additional time has allowed me to benefit from the wisdom, encouragement and scholarship of a wide range of extraordinary scholars and institutions. I am particularly grateful for the support I received from Chawton House Library, especially from Stephen Lawrence, Gillian Dow and Jacqui Grainger. I would also like to thank the many libraries and museums who answered my queries, directed me to resources, and allowed me to reproduce images. I am indebted to the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery, the New York Public Library, the British Library, the British Museum, the Huntington Library, The Lewis Walpole Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Garrick Club. I have benefited from the generosity and brilliance of colleagues in eighteenth-century studies, who have listened and responded to conference papers, read drafts of this work, and shared their own work in progress and print with me. I would like to thank Erin Mackie, who first pointed me to Colley Cibber, and Kristina Straub, wh
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