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Key People

Colley Cibber

English actor and author

Farquhar, engraving by R. Clamp for Burney's Theatrical Portraits

George Farquhar

Irish dramatist

Richard Cumberland, detail of an oil painting by George Romney; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Richard Cumberland

British dramatist

Hugh Kelly

British dramatist