''An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber'' is a

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autob ...

by the British

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

actor-manager An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the business, sometimes taking over a theatre to perform select plays in which they usually star. It is a method of theatrical production used co ...

and current Poet Laureate published in 1740. Popular with the public, it was both an autobiography of Cibber's career and a more general history of the Restoration theatre.Schoch p.149

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* Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. ''The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660–1789''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. * McGirr, Elaine M. ''Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber''. Springer, 2016. * Schoch, Richard. ''Writing the History of the British Stage: 1660–1900''. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Works by Colley Cibber 1740 non-fiction books British autobiographies {{Memoir-stub