Lewis Theobald /ˈtɪbəld/ (baptised 2 April 1688 – 18 September 1744), English textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean...
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other, while Fernando repents and apologizes to them all. In 1727, Lewis Theobald claimed to have obtained three Restoration-era manuscripts of an unnamed...
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Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements theod- "people" and bald "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans. The name...
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March 2020. "Lewis Theobald" Archived 14 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopaedia Britannica. Genetic studies of genius by Lewis Madison Terman...
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some time and that it was the publication of Shakespeare Restored by Lewis Theobald that spurred him to complete the poem and publish it in 1728.[citation...
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H. P. Lovecraft (redirect from Grandpa Theobald)
of his correspondents. Lewis Theobald, Jun., the full version of Grandpa Theobald, was derived from the name of Lewis Theobald, an eighteenth-century...
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Double Falsehood (category Plays by Lewis Theobald)
Distrest Lovers is a 1727 play by the English writer and playwright Lewis Theobald, although the authorship has been contested ever since the play was...
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Labyrinth Life Xenon 2019 Short Rise in Darkness Thomas 2019 Short Eldritch Lewis Theobald 2018 Short Legends of Tomorrow Sheriff 2018 Episode "Amazing Grace"...
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to modern sensibilities. The 18th-century play The Fatal Secret by Lewis Theobald is a reworking of The Duchess of Malfi, imposing Aristotle's 'unities'...
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from being "silenc'd on the third day," as Tate wrote in his preface. Lewis Theobald staged a successful and less troubled adaptation in 1719 at Lincoln's...
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The Fatal Secret (category Plays by Lewis Theobald)
The Fatal Secret is a 1733 tragedy by the British writer Lewis Theobald. The original Covent Garden cast included Lacy Ryan as Ferdinand, Thomas Walker...
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Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun" (Lovecraft). Lovecraft wrote the entire text, but Jackson is also...
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have been re-worked from a subplot in Cervantes' Don Quixote. In 1727, Lewis Theobald produced a play he called Double Falshood, which he claimed to have...
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Words Words" and "Rant", both part of his album, Words Words Words. Lewis Theobald, 1715 – verse full text Thomas Francklin, 1759 – verse Theodore Alois...
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Lewis Theobald, and the poem describes the coronation and heroic games undertaken by all of the dunces of Great Britain in celebration of Theobald's ascension...
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Lewis Theobald, and the poem describes the coronation and heroic games undertaken by all of the dunces of Great Britain in celebration of Theobald's ascension...
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seeks to extend her reign to drama. Hence, she chooses as a champion Lewis Theobald (Dunciad A) and Colley Cibber (Dunciad B). Pope presents the power of...
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Philotas in Philotas by Philip Frowde (1731) Orestes in Orestes by Lewis Theobald (1731) Egistus in Merope by George Jeffreys (1731) Sir Harry Sprightly...
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editors of Shakespeare's works, beginning with Nicholas Rowe (1709) and Lewis Theobald (1733), combined material from the two earliest sources of Hamlet available...
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Jane Shore. It left the public so ignorant of its inner meaning that Lewis Theobald and Benjamin Griffin published a Complete Key to What D'Ye Call It to...
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Webster's violence and sexual frankness had gone out of taste. In 1733, Lewis Theobald wrote and directed an adaptation, The Fatal Secret; the play imposed...
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unauthorised use of them led to a heated controversy. He also accused Lewis Theobald, with whom he had corresponded on Shakespearean subjects as early as...
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Theobald le Botiller, also known as Theobald Butler, 2nd Baron Butler (January 1200 – 19 July 1230) was the son of Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler and...
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used "artificer" as a synonym for "artist" (Discoveries, 33). For Lewis Theobald, too, Jonson "ow[ed] all his Excellence to his Art," in contrast to...
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Royal Convert by Nicholas Rowe (1707) Mirvan in The Persian Princess by Lewis Theobald (1708) Appius in Appius and Virginia by John Dennis (1709) Cunningham...
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Theatre in London. April 5 – Publication takes place in London of Lewis Theobald's Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed...
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Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset), and others. December 13 – Lewis Theobald's Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers, claimed as an adaptation...
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Orestes by Lewis Theobald (1731) Old Bellefleur in The Married Philosopher by John Kelly (1732) Bosola in The Fatal Secret by Lewis Theobald (1733) Lycomedes...
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Greene's The Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and Lewis Theobald's "Happy Ending" version of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, "The...
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tale was published as by "Elizabeth Neville Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun." (Lovecraft). Lovecraft wrote the entire text but Jackson is credited...
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