The Achievement of George Steevens
Title | The Achievement of George Steevens PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Sherbo |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drama |
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George Steevens was one of the most learned of the eighteenth-century editors of Shakespeare. Indeed, his primary concern throughout his life, when he was not perpetrating one of his learned hoaxes, was the explication of the text of Shakespeare's plays and poems. A well-to-do bachelor, friend of Samuel Johnson and a few other notables, and the enemy of somewhat more members of the intellectual life of London, he had the leisure and the energy to pursue his inclinations. Professor Sherbo traces Steevens' achievement as editor of Shakespeare and collaborator in his friend Isaac Reed's Biographea Dramatica (1782) and in his friend John Nichols' Genuine Works of William Hogarth. Without the labors of Steevens eighteenth-century scholarship would not have made the advances that it did.
Note from George Steevens
Title | Note from George Steevens PDF eBook |
Author | George Steevens |
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Release | 1787* |
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Will of George Steevens
Title | Will of George Steevens PDF eBook |
Author | George Steevens |
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Release | 1788 |
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Letter from George Steevens
Title | Letter from George Steevens PDF eBook |
Author | George Steevens |
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Release | 1799 |
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The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare Revised by George Steevens...
Title | The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare Revised by George Steevens... PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 1802 |
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Correspondence Between George Steevens and William Cole
Title | Correspondence Between George Steevens and William Cole PDF eBook |
Author | George Steevens |
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Release | 1781 |
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Letter from George Steevens to W[illiam] Herbert
Title | Letter from George Steevens to W[illiam] Herbert PDF eBook |
Author | George Steevens |
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Release | 1780 |
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