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Caesar In Egypt
''Caesar in Egypt'' is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is inspired by Pierre Corneille's 1642 French play ''The Death of Pompey'' about Julius Caesar's intervention in the Egyptian Civil War between Cleopatra and her brother. Cibber also incorporated elements of Plutarch and John Fletcher (playwright), John Fletcher's ''The False One''. The Drury Lane company invested lots of resources to make it a particularly extravagant production in the traditional style of a Restoration theatre, Restoration heroic drama. The cast included Barton Booth as Julius Caesar, Robert Wilks as Mark Antony, Antony, Theophilus Cibber as Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Ptolemy, Charles Williams (stage actor), Charles Williams as Decius, John Mills (stage actor), John Mills as Photinus, Colley Cibber as Achoreus, John Roberts (stage actor), John Roberts as First Centurion, John Thurmond as Second Centurion, Mary Porter (actress), Mary Porter as Cornelia Metella, Cornelia and Anne Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colley Cibber
Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir ''Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber'' (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert Lowe and Alexander Pope, among others, to criticise his "miserable mutilation" of "crucified Molière ndhapless Shakespeare". He regarded himself as first and foremost an actor and had great popular success in comical fop parts, while as a tragic actor he was persistent but much ridiculed. Cibber's brash, extroverted personality did not sit well with his contemporaries, and he was frequently accused of tasteless theatrical productions, shady business methods, and a social and political opportunism that was thought to have gained him the laureateship over far better poets. He rose to ignominious fame when he became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
