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Chapter 5, ‘Family Portraits: Re-Viewing Cibber’s Marriage and Family’, argues that the sensational stories of Cibber’s rebellious children, Theophilus and Charlotte, have created the misimpression that Cibber’s family life was primarily fractious, an impression bolstered by libels portraying Cibber as a domestic tyrant and/or a selfish narcissist. We have been taught to see Cibber as alienated from his family, beset with quarrels, and always in public. But closer analysis of Cibber’s marriage and his family relations discovers an engaged and committed family man.
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McGirr, E.M. (2016). Family Portraits: Re-viewing Cibber’s Marriage and Family. In: Partial Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-02719-1_5
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