Edmond Malone (1741-1812) was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare's works, the first historian of early English drama, the biographer of Shakespeare, Dryden and Reynolds, and a relentless exposer of literary fraud and forgery. His dedication to discovering the facts of literary history through manuscripts and early editions laid the foundations for the scholar's code and the modern study of literature. Yet he was also a gregarious man, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography of Edmond Malone illuminates in a unique way both the…mehr
Edmond Malone (1741-1812) was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare's works, the first historian of early English drama, the biographer of Shakespeare, Dryden and Reynolds, and a relentless exposer of literary fraud and forgery. His dedication to discovering the facts of literary history through manuscripts and early editions laid the foundations for the scholar's code and the modern study of literature. Yet he was also a gregarious man, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography of Edmond Malone illuminates in a unique way both the intensely private world of the scholar and the highly public world of the late eighteenth-century artistic, intellectual and political elite, including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sarah Siddons and James Boswell.
Peter Martin worked as a professional civil engineer for over 50 years starting in the days when calculations were carried out with the aid of slide rules and 7-figure log tables. During his career he designed and supervised construction of many bridges and harbour works in the UK and throughout the Far East, SE Asia, and Africa, living in the East with his family for 12 years. He has three grown-up sons and six grandchildren and now lives in a village near Glasgow where he attempts to keep the garden in some sort of order.
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List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations 1. Irish beginnings 2. 'Shakspearomania' 3. Dr Johnson and the club 4. Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole 5. Scholarship and strife 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of the Hebrides 7. Deep in Shakespeare 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson 9. Interruptions and disappointments 10. The club of Hercules: exposing Shakespeare forgeries 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds and Burke 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century 13. Signs of weariness 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians' Epilogue: The Malone-Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821) Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations 1. Irish beginnings 2. 'Shakspearomania' 3. Dr Johnson and the club 4. Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole 5. Scholarship and strife 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of the Hebrides 7. Deep in Shakespeare 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson 9. Interruptions and disappointments 10. The club of Hercules: exposing Shakespeare forgeries 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds and Burke 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century 13. Signs of weariness 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians' Epilogue: The Malone-Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821) Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
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