An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber is a
memoir by the British
playwright,
actor-manager and current
Poet Laureate published in 1740.[1] Popular with the public, it was both an autobiography of Cibber's career and a more general history of the
Restoration theatre.[2]
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.