CHARLOTTE, Colley Cibber's youngest daughter, married Rich ard Charke, a violinist, from whom she was soon separated. She began as an understudy to actresses in leading parts, but quar relled with her manager, Charles Fleetwood, on whom she wrote a one-act skit, The Art of Management 0735). She also wrote two comedies and two novels of small merit, and an untrustworthy, but amusing, Narrative of Life of . . . Charlotte Charke, ... by herself (1755), reprinted in Hunt and Clarke's Autobiographies (1822).
Apology was edited in 1822 by E. Bellchambers and in 1889 by R. W. Lowe, who printed with it other valuable theatrical books and pamphlets. It is also included in Hunt and Clarke's Autobiographies (1826, etc.) . Cibber's Dramatic Works were published in 176o, with an account of the life and writings of the author, and again in
Besides the plays already mentioned, he wrote Woman's Wit, or the Lady in Fashion (1697), which was altered later (17o7) into The Schoolboy, or the Comical Rivals; Xerxes (1699), a tragedy acted only once; The Provoked Husband (acted 1728), completed from Van brugh's unfinished Journey to London; The Rival Queens, with the Humours of Alexander the Great (acted 171o) , a comical tragedy ; Damon and Phyllida (acted 1729), a ballad opera; and adaptations from Beaumont and Fletcher, Dryden, Moliere and Corneille. A bibli ography of the numerous skits on Cibber is to be found in Lowe's Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature.
