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Colley Cibber fue un actor, dramaturgo y poeta inglés. Fue el primer actor que realizó también trabajos de dirección lo que estableció su importancia en la historia del teatro. Además, su libro de memorias Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber aporta una información muy valiosas sobre el teatro londinense de la época; las dos comedias que escribió reflejan los cambios culturales e ideológicos de principios del siglo XVIII.

Cibber escribió algunas piezas teatrales para que fueran representadas por su propia compañía en el teatro de Drury Lane y adaptó muchas más. Su trabajo recibió críticas negativas de gente de la talla de Alexander Pope. Se veía a sí mismo como el mejor actor del momento y, a pesar de sus esfuerzos por interpretar personajes dramáticos, fue ridiculizado constantemente; consiguió finalmente el éxito interpretando papeles cómicos.

Sus contemporáneos consideraban que Cibber tenía poco gusto en sus producciones teatrales y una pobre visión empresarial. El oportunismo social y político le permitió ganar el premio de poeta laureado pasando por encima de otros autores mucho mejores. A pesar del premio, los estudiosos actuales consideran que sus poemas tienen poco interés. Además, la personalidad extravertida de Cibber ofendió a muchos y la fama le llegó gracias a ser el blanco del poema satírico The Dunciad de Alexander Pope. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. noviembre 1671 – 11. diciembre 1757
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Colley Cibber: Frases en inglés

“A weak invention of the enemy.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Richard III.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“This business will never hold water.”

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She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act IV (1703).

“Words are but empty thanks.”

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Woman's Wit, Act V (1697).

“Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!”

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The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).

“The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome
Outlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act III, scene 1. Similar thought by Sir Thomas Browne.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Perish that thought! No, never be it said
That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.
Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain!
Conscience, avaunt! Richard ’s himself again!
Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away!
My soul ’s in arms, and eager for the fray.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Possession is eleven points in the law.”

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Woman's Wit, Act I (1697).

“We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.”

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Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").

“Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act III, scene 1.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“I don't see it.”

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The Careless Husband (1704), Act ii, scene 2.

“Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy.
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
Although a poor blind boy!”

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Fuente: The Blind Boy (l. 17-20).

“So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,
And thus the soldier arm'd with resolution
Told his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act II, scene 1.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”

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Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, Act II, sc. i (1696).

“With clink of hammers closing rivets up.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Henry V.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,
And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.”

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A parody on Pope's lines: "Graced as thou art with all the power of words, / So known, so honoured at the House of Lords"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Losers must have leave to speak.”

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Act I.
The Rival Fools (1709)

“Off with his head—; so much for Buckingham.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act IV, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“I 've lately had two spiders
Crawling upon my startled hopes.
Now though thy friendly hand has brush'd 'em from me,
Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes:
I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.”

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Colley Cibber Richard III

Act IV, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart- opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and … adore thee.”

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The Lady's Last Stake (1707), Act I, sc. i.

“Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended.”

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The Double Gallant, prologue (1707).

“The will for the deed.”

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Act III.
The Rival Fools (1709)

“Within one of her.”

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Act V.
The Rival Fools (1709)