Author

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in The Modern Drama, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Books
Documented: 1846

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“A little higher stood those, who excelled in invention of plots, preg- nant crises, or brilliant point of dialogue, but both degraded the drama, Sheridan scarcely less than Gibber; and Garrick and the Kembles, while they lighted up the edifice, left slow fire for its destruction.”

The Modern Drama · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Colley Cibber

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1846—

The Modern Drama

“The Modern Drama”

mentioned

“A little higher stood those, who excelled in invention of plots, preg- nant crises, or brilliant point of dialogue, but both degraded the drama, Sheridan scarcely less than Gibber; and Garrick and the Kembles, while they lighted up the edifice, left slow fire for its destruction.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p116

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p116; page given is to the 1869 reprint.