Colley Cibber, The Refusal

Laura Favero Carraro (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Ed. by Nicholas Seager, University of Keele
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1721 - 1721

Places

England (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Play

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Colley Cibber’s

The Refusal

was first performed at Drury Lane on Tuesday, February 14, 1721. Prompted by the sudden burst of the South Sea Bubble in the summer, Cibber was certainly working on it in the autumn months of 1720, when, according to Helene Koon, word “leaked out and in an attempt to pre-empt the novelty Charles Rich gave his own adaptation of

The Female Vertuosos

(Thomas Wright, 1693) before Drury Lane could present Cibber’s” (1986: 100).

The London Stage

records Rich’s

No Fools Like Wits

was performed on Tuesday, January 10, 1721 at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. It ran for three nights with “the Prince present” on January 12. Cibber’s

The Refusal

ran for six successive nights until Monday, February 20, 1721. On February 27, Edmund Curll the bookseller advertised the…

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Citation: Carraro, Laura Favero. "The Refusal". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 September 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38963, accessed 08 May 2024.]

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