Lewis Theobald

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Lewis Theobald was an 18th-century English Shakespearean editor and critic, best known as the original target of Alexander Pope’s satire in The Dunciad.

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instanceOf Shakespearean editor
dramatist
human
literary critic
textual scholar
associatedWith Drury Lane Theatre NERFINISHED
Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre NERFINISHED
birthDate 1688-04-02
birthPlace Sittingbourne, Kent, England NERFINISHED
burialPlace St. Pancras, London NERFINISHED
collaboratedWith Colley Cibber NERFINISHED
Robert Wilks NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
criticized Alexander Pope’s 1725 edition of Shakespeare NERFINISHED
deathDate 1744-09-18
deathPlace London, England
edited The Works of Shakespeare (1733, seven-volume edition) NERFINISHED
educatedIn law
era 18th century
familyBackground son of a solicitor
genre drama
literary criticism
translation
influenced later Shakespeare editors
knownFor being satirized by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad
editing the plays of William Shakespeare
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Augustan literature
name Lewis Theobald NERFINISHED
notableWork Double Falsehood NERFINISHED
Shakespeare Restored NERFINISHED
The Works of Shakespeare (1733 edition) NERFINISHED
occupation editor
playwright
theatre critic
translator
proposedAsSourceFor Shakespeare’s play The Winter’s Tale NERFINISHED
replacedBy Colley Cibber as hero of later versions of The Dunciad
usedMethod comparison of early quartos and folios
conjectural emendation of corrupt texts
wasTargetOf Alexander Pope’s satire
The Dunciad NERFINISHED
workedAs attorney’s clerk
wrote Double Falsehood NERFINISHED
Orestes NERFINISHED
Shakespeare Restored NERFINISHED
The Fatal Secret NERFINISHED
The Perfidious Brother NERFINISHED
The Persian Princess NERFINISHED

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The Dunciad personSatirized Lewis Theobald