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UNINA9910459602103321 |
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Autore |
Koon Helene <1925-> |
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Titolo |
Colley Cibber : a biography / / Helene Koon |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1986 |
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©1986 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Dramatists, English - 18th century |
Actors - Great Britain |
Theatrical managers - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE; ONE: APPRENTICESHIP; TWO: JOURNEYMAN TO MASTER; THREE: THE TURNING POINT; FOUR: UNDER ATTACK; FIVE: MISFORTUNES; SIX: RETIREMENT; EPILOGUE; APPENDIXES; 1. Cibber Genealogy; 2. Cibber's Second Letter to Pope; 3. Colley Cibber's Will; 4. Chronological List of Cibber's Roles; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Colley Cibber changed the course of the English-speaking theater. One of the most complete theater men in the history of the stage, he fostered the change from drama as the handmaiden of literature to theater as an independent and lively art. In the process, Cibber became one of London's brightest stars, one of its most popular playwrights and, for thirty years, manager of the most important theater in England, Drury Lane.Yet above all, Cibber was an actor, and this fact governed his life and career. In his plays, he demonstrated a remarkable awareness of the audience in the playhouse, while t |
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UNISA996387054303316 |
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Autore |
Talon Omer <approximately 1510-1562.> |
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Audomari Talæi rhetorica, e P. Rami, regii professoris, prælectionibus observata [[electronic resource] ] : Cui præfixa est epistola, quæ lectorem de omnibus vtriusq[ue] viri scriptis, propediem edendis commonefacit |
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Londini : , : Ex tipographia Societatis Stationariorum., 1614 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). |
Signatures: A-Eâ¸. |
Imperfect: pages cropped and tightly bound with loss of print. |
Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
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