Jane Cibber

Jane Cibber (1706-1733) was a British stage actress.^[1]

Life[]

She was born in 1704 or 1706 as Jane Johnson.^[2]

Her guardian was the writer Richard Savage. Originally appearing at Drury Lane Theatre as Jane Johnson, in 1725 she married Theophilus Cibber the son of actor-manager Colley Cibber.^[3] She had four children with him while continuing to act on the stage in a mixture of comedies and tragedies. When Elizabeth Younger defected to work for the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre company, she took over the roles she had been playing.^[4] In 1731 she played the title role in Caelia by Charles Johnson.

She died after childbirth in 1733. Her husband said he would never remarry. He did in 1734.^[2]

^ The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama p.XIII
^ ^a ^b "Cibber, Theophilus (1703–1758), actor and playwright". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5418. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
^ Koon p.109
^ Koon p.109

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Koon, Helene. Colley Cibber: A Biography. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Straub, Kristina, G. Anderson, Misty and O'Quinn, Daniel . The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

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