An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber is a memoir by the British playwright, actor-manager and current Poet Laureate published in 1740.McGirr p.28 Popular with the public, it was both an autobiography of Cibber's career and a more general history of the Restoration theatre.Schoch p.149
References
Bibliography 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.