• 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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    comedian and actor Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), British textual editor and author, an 18th-century editor of Shakespeare Nichola Theobald, English film, television...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    adding some or all of the Sly framework to their versions of The Shrew; Lewis Theobald (1733), Thomas Hanmer (1744), William Warburton (1747), Samuel Johnson...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 1716) – The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald (part of Theobald's and Curll's battle with Pope and other "Tory" wits) Edward...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • based on The Taming of the Shrew) William Taverner – Everybody Mistaken Lewis Theobald – The Perfidious Brother Jane Brereton – The Fifth Ode of the Fourth...
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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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  • – The Perplexed Couple Nicholas Rowe -The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey Lewis Theobald – The Perfidious Brother (allegedly plagiarized, staged the following...
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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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