Colley Cibber, the actor-manager and hapless poet laureate who became a by-word for doltishness among the likes of Fielding, Johnson and Pope, has one remarkable and durable achievement to his name.

With classical theatre in decline, one scours the Fringe for rarities; and plays don't come much rarer than this 1696 comedy by Colley Cibber, unseen in London for more than 200 years. Its claim to ...

On this day in 1740, writing as Captain Hercules Vinegar, Henry Fielding summoned poet laureate Colley Cibber to court, charged with the murder of the English language. Fielding was not only a satiric ...

The Relapse (by Sir John Vanbrugh; produced by the Theatre Guild) reached Broadway just 254 years after it first opened in London. Among the last of the Restoration comedies, it was written to refute ...