Cibber
Americannoun
noun
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Alongside Handel, the film looks at his devout, depressive librettist Charles Jennens, and at actress and favorite singer Susannah Cibber, the subject of the aforementioned scandal, whose parts Handel taught her note by note.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2014
In the 18 century, many esteemed Colley Cibber more highly than Alexander Pope.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But it’s nonetheless a rollicking if somewhat textually thin fusion of two Restoration-era romps, by Colley Cibber and John Vanbrugh, appended with a declamatory Shakespearean wrap-up exalting love and licentiousness in their infinite varieties.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2012
Cibber finished the slowly burning aria, and a local minister jumped from his seat.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2012
He enjoyed the distinction of refusing the post of poet laureate, after the death of Cibber.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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