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1671, Nov 61757, Dec 11
an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir 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 Moliere [and] hapless Shakespeare".
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11/26/1702-Premiere of Colley Cibber's She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, or The Kind Imposter 
01/11/1709-Colley Cibber's Rival Fools premieres in London
12/09/1724-Colley Cibber's Caesar in Egypt premieres in London
02/15/1745-Colley Cibber's Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John premieres in London 
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