Alexander Dyce (June 30, 1798 - May 15, 1869) was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Year 1798 ( MDCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
He was born in Edinburgh and received his early education at the high school there, before becoming a student at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the 4th oldest college of the University A. in 1819. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year He took holy orders, and became a curate at Lantegloss, in Cornwall, and subsequently at Nayland, in Suffolk; in 1827 he settled in London. Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
His first books were Select Translations from Quintus Smyrnaeus (1821), an edition of Collins (1827), and Specimens of British Poetesses (1825). Quintus Smyrnaeus (or Quintus of Smyrna, also known as Kointos of Smyrna) ( Κόιντος Σμυρναίος) was a Greek epic William Collins may refer to William Collins (poet (1721&ndash1759 18th century English poet William Collins (painter (1788&ndash1847 He issued annotated editions of George Peele, Robert Greene, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Marlowe, and Beaumont and Fletcher, with lives of the authors and much illustrative matter. George Peele (born in London and baptized 25 July 1556 &ndash buried 9 November 1596) was an English Dramatist John Webster (c 1580 &ndash c 1634 was an English Jacobean Dramatist, and a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. Thomas Middleton (1580 &ndash 1627 was an English Jacobean playwright and Poet. Francis Beaumont (1584 &ndash March 6 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John John Fletcher (1579 &ndash 1625 was a Jacobean Playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was He completed, in 1833, an edition of James Shirley left unfinished by William Gifford, and contributed biographies of Shakespeare, Pope, Akenside and Beattie to Pickering's Aldine Poets. James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 &ndash October 1666 was an English Dramatist. William Shakespeare ( baptised Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 is generally regarded as the greatest English Poet of the eighteenth century best known for his Satirical Mark Akenside (November 9 1721 &ndash June 23 1770 was an English Poet and Physician. Professor James Beattie ( October 25, 1735, Laurencekirk &mdash August 18, 1803, Aberdeen) was a Scottish scholar He also edited (1836-1838) Richard Bentley's works, and Specimens of British Sonnets (1833). Richard Bentley ( January 27, 1662 &ndash July 14, 1742) was an English Theologian, classical scholar and His carefully revised edition of John Skelton, which appeared in 1843, revived interest in that trenchant satirist. John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c 1460 &ndash June 21, 1529) English Poet, was born at Diss in Norfolk Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human In 1857 his edition of Shakespeare was published by Moxon; and the second edition was issued by Chapman & Hall in 1866. William Shakespeare ( baptised He also published Remarks on Collier's and Knight's Editions of Shakespeare (1844); A Few Notes on Shakespeare (1853); and Strictures on Collier's new Edition of Shakespeare (1859), a contribution to the Collier controversy, which ended a long friendship between the two scholars.
Dyce was closely connected with several literary societies, and undertook the publication of Kempe's Nine Days' Wonder for the Camden Society; and the old plays of Timon of Athens and Sir Thomas More were published by him for the Shakespeare Society. See Will Kempe (actor for the contemporary television actor William Kempe (died 1603? also spelled Kemp, was an English Not to be confused with the Cambridge Camden Society. The Camden Society, named after the early English historian William Camden, The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535 from 1935 Saint Thomas More, was an English Lawyer, author and statesman who in his lifetime gained He was associated with Halliwell-Phillips, John Payne Collier and Thomas Wright as one of the founders of the Percy Society, for publishing old English poetry. John Payne Collier ( January 11, 1789 – September 17, 1883) English Shakespearian Critic and Forger Thomas Wright ( 21 April, 1810 &ndash 23 December, 1877) was an English Antiquarian and writer Dyce also issued Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers (1856).
By the time of his death, Dyce had collected a valuable library, containing many rare Elizabethan books, and this collection was left to the South Kensington Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum). The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design housing a permanent collection His wide reading in Elizabethan literature enabled him to explain much that was formerly obscure in Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( baptised While preserving all that was valuable in former editions, Dyce added much fresh matter. His Glossary, a large volume of 500 pages, was the most exhaustive that had appeared.
This entry is updated from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica
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