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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: Sarah Bernhardt, Kevin Spacey, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, David Garrick, Wilson Barrett, Squire Bancroft, Colley Cibber, Samuel Foote, George Grossmith, Jr., Henry Irving, Edwin Booth, Oscar Asche, Lydia Thompson, Stephen Kemble, Thomas S. Hamblin, Emily Soldene, Henry Gartside Neville, John Philip Kemble, Arthur Bourchier, Madge Kendal, William Macready, Selina Dolaro, Bransby Williams, William Evans Burton, Richard Mansfield, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, Priscilla Horton, Lupino Lane, George Jolly, Sarah Thorne, Robert Evett, Harley Granville-Barker, William Hunter Kendal, Thomas German Reed, Donald Wolfit, Evelyn Millard, George Alexander, Robert Wilks, Andre Antoine, Harry Brodribb Irving, Gerald du Maurier, Laura Keene, Charles James Mathews, Robert Browne, Matheson Lang, Charles Wyndham, James William Wallack, Samuel Phelps, Frank Benson, Benjamin Nottingham Webster, Actor-manager, Henry Baynton, Nigel Playfair, Charles Dillon, James Keteltas Hackett, Friedrich Ludwig Schroder, James Burbage, Cyril Maude, John Hare, John Ward, Tate Wilkinson, Aurelien Lugne-Poe, William Henry Murray, Roger Kemble, Geoffrey Kendal, Alfred Dampier, Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman. Excerpt: Colley Cibber (; 6 November 1671 - 11 December 1757) was 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 hapless Shakespeare." He regarded himself as first and foremost an actor and had great popular success in comical fop parts, while as a tragic actor he was persistent but much ridiculed. Cibber's...
