In the first edition, Lewis Theobald is given the leading role, but in the final edition, Colley Cibber is named emperor.
In the first edition, Lewis Theobald is given the leading role, but in the final edition, Colley Cibber is named emperor. In the third book, Cibber falls asleep, and sees the past, present, and future, where  Dullness rules over all. In the fourth book, Dullness' reign extends to scholarship, art, and science.  Alexander Pope attacks his critics in, FTP, what work, the "dunce-epic?"
In the first edition, Lewis Theobald is given the leading role, but in the final edition, Colley Cibber is named emperor.
The Dunciad