Shakespeare : William (1564-1616), Ben Jonson had prophecised that he “was not of an age, but for all time”. The majority of scholars accept 38 plays, 154 sonnets, & 2 heroic narrative poems as the work of Shakespeare. “Around 1719, Alexander Pope was employed by the publisher Jacob Tonson to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare. The six-volume New Edition of the Collected Works of Shakespeare finally appeared in 1725. It had silently ‘regularised’ Shakespeare’s metre & rewritten his verse in a number of places, & demoted about 1560 lines of Shakespearean material to footnotes, arguing that they were so ‘excessively bad’ that Shakespeare could never have written them. Other lines were excluded from the edition altogether. In 1726, the lawyer, poet & pantomime deviser Lewis Theobald published a scathing pamphlet called Shakespeare Restored (1726), revealing his superior knowledge of editorial technique, cataloguing the errors in Pope’s work, & suggesting a number of revisions to the text. This upset Pope, who then made Theobald the original hero of Dunciad. The second edition of Pope’s Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it. Most of later 18th-century editors of Shakespeare dismissed Pope’s creatively motivated approach to textual criticism. Pope’s preface, however, continued to be highly rated. It was suggested that Shakespeare’s texts were thoroughly contaminated by actors’ interpolations & they would influence editors for most of the 18th century.” [Internet]
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