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Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Charke | Charlotte's father, Colley Cibber
, was an actor, manager of Drury Lane Theatre
, and Poet Laureate: he had become an unfaithful husband before Charlotte was born, and he was at the peak of his... |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's non-respectable situation as well as, it seems, her disposition, made it hard for her to form friendships with women. She always retained her devotion to Constantia Grierson
, before and after the latter's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Centlivre | Love at a Venture was plagiarised by Colley Cibber
in The Double Gallant (published in 1707), which, unlike its source, was produced on the London stage. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 80 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Charke | Her title-page identifies her as Colley's
youngest daughter: she must have taken his Apology for his own life as model or anti-model. Charlotte's life offered her plenty of sensational material. She takes a rueful attitude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | Colley Cibber
retired abruptly from managing Drury Lane
, passing it not to his son Theophilus
but to John Highmore
; Theophilus, CC
, and other performers defected to the illicit Little Theatre in the Haymarket
. Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 9-62. 18 Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988. 52-3 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cooper | As a means of earning money she went on the stage. In January 1734 she appeared at Drury Lane
, and in April that year she organised her own benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre |
Publishing | Mary Leapor | It is hard to overestimate the importance, for ML
's output and for the survival of her work, of her patron Bridget Freemantle
, who appears in her writing as Artemisia. From September 1745... |
Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | It was this poem which brought LP
the friendship of Colley Cibber
. But it also brought accusations of having plagiarised from her husband. Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols. 1: 131, 134, 2: 510 |
Textual Features | Alexander Pope | In this, the final version, Lewis Theobald
's place as mock-hero was taken by Colley Cibber
, which shifted the target from pedantry to shallowness and frivolity. |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable
reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
, Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works... |
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