Composers and their stage works 


Colley Cibber

(1671 - 1757) : English actor, Poet Laureate and dramatist. Born 16 November, 1671; died 11 December, 1757

PLAYS

All were first performed in London.

  1. Love's Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion. Comedy. Published 1696. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, January, 1696.
  2. Woman's Wit; or, The Lady in Fashion. Comedy. Published 1697. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, ca. December, 1699.
  3. Xerxes. Tragedy. Published 1699. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, ca. February, 1699.
  4. The Tragical History of King Richard III. Tragedy. Published 1700. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, ca. December, 1699. Adapted from William Shakespeare's Richard III.
  5. Love Makes a Man; or, The Fop's Fortune. Comedy. Published 1701. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, December 13, 1700.
  6. She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not; or, The Kind Imposter. Comedy. Published 1703. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, November 26, 1702.
  7. The School Boy; or, The Comical Rivals. Farce. Published 1707. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, 1702.
  8. The Careless Husband. Comedy. Published 1705. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, December 7, 1704.
  9. Perolla and Izadora. Tragedy. Published 1706. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, December 3, 1705.
  10. The Comical Lovers. Comedy. Published 1707. Produced Haymarket Theatre, February 4, 1707. First acted as Marriage à la Mode; or, The Comical Lovers. Made up of scenes from two of John Dryden's plays.
  11. The Double Gallant; or, The Sick Lady's Cure. Comedy. Published 1707. Produced Haymarket Theatre, November 1, 1707.
  12. The Lady's Last Stake, or The Wife's Resentment. Comedy. Published 1708. Produced Haymarket Theatre, December 13, 1707.
  13. The Rival Fools. Comedy. Published 1709. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, January 11, 1709.
  14. The Rival Queens, with The Humours of Alexander the Great. Burlesque. Published 1729. Produced Haymarket Theatre, June, 1710.
  15. Hob, or The Country Wake. Farce. Published 1715. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, October 6, 1711. Based on a play by Thomas Doggett. Attribution is doubtful.
  16. Ximena, or The Heroick Daughter. Tragedy. Published 1719. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, November 28, 1712.
  17. Venus and Adonis. Masque. Published 1715. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, March 12, 1715.
  18. Myrtillo. Masque. Published 1715. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, November 5, 1715.
  19. The Non-Juror. Comedy. Published 1718. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, December 6, 1717. Based on Molicre's Tartuffe.
  20. The Refusal; or, The Ladies' Philosophy. Comedy. Published 1721. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, February 14, 1721.
  21. Caesar in Aegypt. Tragedy. Published 1725. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, December 9, 1724.
  22. The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London. Comedy (With John Vanbrugh). Published 1728. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, January 10, 1728. Cibber completed Vanbrugh's play.
  23. Love in a Riddle. Ballad opera. Published 1729. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, January 7, 1729.
  24. Damon and Phillida. Ballad opera. Published 1729. Produced Haymarket Theatre, August 16, 1729.
  25. Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. Tragedy. Published 1745. Produced Covent Garden Theatre, February 15, 1745.
  26. The Lady's Lecture. Theatrical dialogue between Sir Charles Easy and his marriageable daughter. Published 1748.