Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar by Peter Martin

Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar by Peter Martin

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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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Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar by Peter Martin

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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ISBN 13 9780521619820
ISBN 10 0521619823
Title Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar
Author Peter Martin
Series Cambridge Studies In Eighteenth-Century English Literature And Thought
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2005-02-17
Number of pages 348
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