Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. He rose to ignominious fame when he became the chief target, the head Dunce, of Alexander Pope’s satirical poem The Dunciad. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources. He made his last appearance on the stage in 1745,...