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.
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Edmond Malone (1741-1812) laid the foundations for the scholarly study of literature; yet he was also gregarious, attracting many friends and enemies among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography illuminates the private world of the scholar and the public world of the late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.
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The Malone family name, Malone told his kinsman Charles O'Conor in December 1787, derived from some ancestor with a bald head: 'Moil I know is bald, but I know not the Irish for head; and rather suspect that the gentleman's name was Owen, and that he was called ... Moil Owen which was afterwards easily corrupted into Malone.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gentleman's Magazine, Life of Johnson, Edmond Malone, British Museum, Shakespeare's Lives, Joseph Ritson, James's Chronicle, Life of Shakespeare, Trinity College, Burke Corr, Public Advertiser, Samuel Johnson, Susanna Spencer, Inner Temple, Isaac Reed, Joseph Warton, Monthly Review, Michael Kearney, Sarah Loveday, Queen Anne Street East, Samuel Ireland, The Revd, Arthur O'Neill Collection, Horace Walpole, House of Commons New!
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The Malone family name, Malone told his kinsman Charles O'Conor in December 1787, derived from some ancestor with a bald head: 'Moil I know is bald, but I know not the Irish for head; and rather suspect that the gentleman's name was Owen, and that he was called ... Moil Owen which was afterwards easily corrupted into Malone.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gentleman's Magazine, Life of Johnson, Edmond Malone, British Museum, Shakespeare's Lives, Joseph Ritson, James's Chronicle, Life of Shakespeare, Trinity College, Burke Corr, Public Advertiser, Samuel Johnson, Susanna Spencer, Inner Temple, Isaac Reed, Joseph Warton, Monthly Review, Michael Kearney, Sarah Loveday, Queen Anne Street East, Samuel Ireland, The Revd, Arthur O'Neill Collection, Horace Walpole, House of Commons New!
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- Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell on 17 pages
- Shakespeare's Lives (Oxford paperbacks) by S. Schoenbaum on 6 pages
- History of English Poetry (4 Volumes in 3) by Thomas Warton on 4 pages
- Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Richard Braverman in Front Matter, Back Matter, and Back Cover
- Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare on page 50, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Shakespeare Survey (Volume 50) by Stanley Wells on page 266
- Theorizing Practice: Redefining Theatre History (Redefining British Theatre History) by W. B. Worthen on page 61
- The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Blanford Parker in Back Matter
- Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Karen O'Brien in Back Matter
- Faking Literature by K. K. Ruthven in Back Matter
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