Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary BiographyEdmond 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. |
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Contents
Irish beginnings | 1 |
Shakspearomania | 21 |
Dr Johnson and The Club | 52 |
Courtship books forgeries and Horace Walpole | 65 |
Scholarship and strife | 81 |
helping Boswell with the Tour to the Hebrides | 95 |
Deep in Shakespeare | 112 |
Boswells Life of Johnson | 144 |
homage to Reynolds and Burke | 204 |
John Dryden and the closing of the century | 223 |
Signs of weariness | 243 |
The last of the Shakspearians | 257 |
The MaloneBoswell third variorum edition 1821 | 271 |
Appendix A | 277 |
Appendix B | 280 |
Bibliography | 281 |
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Page 284 - Mr. Ireland's Vindication of his Conduct, Respecting the Publication of the Supposed Shakspeare MSS. Being a Preface or Introduction to a Reply to the Critical Labors of Mr. Malone, in His "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Papers, &c., &c.
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| Title | Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography Volume 25 of Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought |
| Author | Peter Martin |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521460301, 9780521460309 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Historical Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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