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The Augustan Reprint Society


LEWIS THEOBALD
Preface to The Works of Shakespeare
(1734)

With an Introduction by
Hugh G. Dick


Publication Number 1̶9̶ 20
(Extra Series, No. 2)




Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1949
Editor’s Introduction
Preface to Shakespeare
  Digression: Greek
ARS Publications

GENERAL EDITORS

H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys, University ofMichigan
Edward Niles Hooker, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., Universityof California, Los Angeles


ASSISTANT EDITORS

W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
John Loftis, University of California, LosAngeles


ADVISORY EDITORS

Emmett L. Avery, State College ofWashington
Benjamin Boyce, University ofNebraska
Louis I. Bredvold, University ofMichigan
Cleanth Brooks, YaleUniversity
James L. Clifford, ColumbiaUniversity
Arthur Friedman, University ofChicago
Samuel H. Monk, University ofMinnesota
Ernest Mossner, University ofTexas
James Sutherland, Queen MaryCollege, London

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INTRODUCTION
Lewis Theobald's edition of Shakespeare (1734) is one cornerstone ofmodern Shakespearian scholarship and hence of English literary scholarship ingeneral. It is the first edition of an English writer in which a man with aprofessional breadth and concentration of reading in the writer's period triedto bring all relevant, ascertainable fact to bear on the establishment of theauthor's text and the explication of his obscurities. For Theobald was the firsteditor of Shakespeare who displayed a well grounded knowledge of Shakespeare'slanguage and metrical practice and that of his contemporaries, the sources andchronology of his plays, and the broad range of Elizabethan-Jacobean drama as ameans of illuminating the work of the master writer. Thus both in the editionitself and in his Preface, which stands as the first significant statement of ascholar's editorial duties and methods in handlin                        
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