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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 101–114.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Robert D. Hume R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725760 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 0 1 Reevaluating Colley Cibber and Some Problems in Documentation of Performance, 1690 1800 Robert D. Hume Pennsylvania State...
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in The Enlightenment's Dark Spaces: Library as Heterotopia in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. Giuseppe Grisoni, Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696).
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 1. Giuseppe Grisoni, Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696). ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 124–139.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Colley. Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600–1850 (London: Jonathan
Cape, 2002). Pp. 468. £20. ISBN 0224059254
William Dalrymple. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
(London: HarperCollins, 2002). Pp. 640. £8.99 (paper). ISBN 0006550967
Arthur Conan Doyle...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 138–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
...,” writes theater manager, actor, and play-
wright Colley Cibber in his Apology, “no Actresses had ever been seen upon
the English Stage. The Characters of Women, in former Theatres, were
perform’d by Boys, or young Men of the most effeminate Aspect,” but
after their appearance as players...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 46–69.
Published: 01 January 2002
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and why political women were represented in the press. This is particularly
true when we consider the Westminster election of 1784, during which an
extraordinary number of works featuring women appeared. Such leading
researchers as Linda Colley, Anne Stott, Amanda Foreman...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 39–75.
Published: 01 April 2011
... actor and a leading theater manager,
but, as the son of the celebrated actor, manager, playwright, and poet lau-
reate, Colley Cibber, Theophilus was at the top of the theatrical hierarchy.
Perhaps Susannah Arne, at the bottom, saw her marriage not in personal
terms, but rather in professional...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 20–43.
Published: 01 September 2005
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Two separate attempts by Scotsmen on the life of John Wilkes in 1763 sug-
gest the general level of antipathy the Scots felt toward Wilkes and indi-
cate the turbulent nature of an increasingly bitter political quarrel. Yet, as
Linda Colley remarks, evidence of such antipathy is “usually omitted...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 121–127.
Published: 01 January 2014
... that physical separation from continental Europe encouraged the
articulation of a distinctive identity. Most famously, of course, some twenty
years ago Linda Colley argued that eighteenth-century Britons defined them-
selves “in conscious opposition to the Other beyond their shores.”3
Yet...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 September 2004
... conclusion, offered by William Pulteney to George II in 742, that
“two thirds of the nation were Tories” (quoted in Colley, 46). Just six years
prior to the war, Tories had triumphantly exploited their alliance with
“the people” of Britain during Walpole’s attempt to pass the Excise Tax.
After...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 51–74.
Published: 01 September 2020
... nations. In a world populated not only with people but also with the manifestations of power, Defoe ties place, enmity, and selfhood together. Captivity and vulnerability, as Linda Colley has shown, were inherent to empire, especially when it came to Britain, whose relatively small size and population...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., Literary and Dramatic: Chapbooks, Advice Books, Almanacs, Ballads, Farces, Pantomimes, Prints, and Shows,” in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660 – 1780 , ed. John Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005), 61 – 86. 4. Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707 – 1837 (New...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2018
... affection, with fundamental national virtues
embedded in the land, which is glamorized on stage.
In the crucial musical hunting scene, there is also a specific appeal to
upper-class men in the audience. Connected with “Britishness, virility, and
rank in action,” fox hunting was, as Linda Colley...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 33–54.
Published: 01 September 2015
...! I
desire! I possess you!
—Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian (1740)
Almost three centuries have passed since the publication of Colley Cibber’s
self-aggrandizing autobiography, and yet the work’s opening pages, culmi-
nating in a flamboyant address...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
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Cyrus, and Tancred in James Thomson’s Tancred and Sigusmunda, from Bell’s British Theatre
(1797).
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example, there is little to distinguish Priscilla Hopkins as Aura in Charles
Johnson’s The Country Lasses, from Mary Bulkley as Angelina in Colley
Cibber’s Love Makes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., poetic spaces also emerge as darkened enclaves of enlightenment. Ileana Baird, in “The Enlightenment's Dark Spaces,” turns to Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728–43), examining Colley Cibber's “Gothic Library” as a heterotopic space that encapsulates the destructive and deceiving tendencies...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... was challenged by Linda Colley (though Colley agreed that
the Tory party had indeed survived), but Cruickshanks opened the way to
further research into Jacobitism as a presence in British politics and soci-
ety.12 Such research prospered in the 1980s, when political devolution for
Scotland and Wales...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 68–88.
Published: 01 September 2016
... has not gone entirely
unchallenged. Responding chiefly to J. H. Plumb’s depiction of the Tories
as “the party of the squirearchy,” Linda Colley declared that “once one
acknowledges the electoral rapport between Toryism and the centres of
population and trade, it becomes rather more difficult...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of writing a play upon this subject, when he was very young at the University, and even attempted something in it there, though not a line as it now stands” (1:xiii–xiv). Jacob Tonson and Colley Cibber both seem to have read the first four acts in 1703–04. See Joseph Spence, Observations, Anecdotes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (3): 43–61.
Published: 01 September 2001
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. . . played no small part in the formation of the specifically English na-
tional character.”5 More specifically, Linda Colley argues...
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