Word: cibber
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Dion Boucicault and Cibber were both not only playwrights, but also actors and managers. This two-fold capacity was to each a hindrance as well as a help It helped them in adapting their ideas to the needs of the stage, but at the same time it tended to produce artificiality. The beginning of Boucicault's dramatic work was practically in "London Assurance," which appeared about 1840. It was criticised as "a mere imitation of Sheridan," but Sheridan in his turn was indebted to Congreve and Moliere. Boucicault, like other English dramatists, makes little appeal to life. He neither helps...