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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Theobald canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Shakespearean editor
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dramatist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ textual scholar ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Drury Lane Theatre
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Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1688-04-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sittingbourne, Kent, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Pancras, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Colley Cibber
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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
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literary criticism ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| influenced | later Shakespeare editors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being satirized by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad
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editing the plays of William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| name | Lewis Theobald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Double Falsehood
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Shakespeare Restored NERFINISHED ⓘ The Works of Shakespeare (1733 edition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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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
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conjectural emendation of corrupt texts ⓘ |
| wasTargetOf |
Alexander Pope’s satire
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The Dunciad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs | attorney’s clerk ⓘ |
| wrote |
Double Falsehood
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Orestes NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakespeare Restored NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fatal Secret NERFINISHED ⓘ The Perfidious Brother NERFINISHED ⓘ The Persian Princess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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