Jane Cibber

'''Jane Cibber''' ({{nee}} Johnson; 1704/1706 — 1733) was a British stage actress.<ref>''The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama'', pg. XIII</ref>

==Life== She was born in 1704 or 1706 as Jane Johnson.<ref name=cib>{{Cite ODNB|title=Cibber, Theophilus (1703–1758), actor and playwright|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-5418|access-date=2021-03-12| year=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5418| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>

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.<ref name="Koon p.109">Koon p. 109</ref> 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.<ref name="Koon p.109"/> In 1731, she played the title role in ''Caelia'' by Charles Johnson.{{cn|date=July 2023}}

She died after childbirth in 1733. Her husband said he would never remarry. He did in 1734.<ref name=cib/>

==Selected roles== * Polyxena in ''Hecuba'' by Richard West (1726) * Jenny in ''The Provoked Husband'' (1728) * Ianthe in ''Love in a Riddle'' (1729) * Cleone in ''Timoleon'' by Benjamin Martyn (1730) * Maria in ''The London Merchant'' (1731) * Caelia in ''Caelia'' (1732) * Clarissa in ''The Modish Couple'' (1732) * Lady Charlotte Gaywit in ''The Modern Husband'' by Henry Fielding (1732)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Garrick to Gyngell''. SIU Press, 1978. * 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.

Category:18th-century British actresses Category:1700s births Category:1733 deaths