Alexander Dyce

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Alexander Dyce


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
June 30, 1798

Died
May 15, 1869

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Rev. Alexander Dyce was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian.

He was born in Edinburgh and received his early education at the high school there, before becoming a student at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1819. He took holy orders, and became a curate at Lantegloss, in Cornwall, and subsequently at Nayland, in Suffolk; in 1827 he settled in London.

His first books were Select Translations from Quintus Smyrnaeus (1821), an edition of Collins (1827), and Specimens of British Poetesses (1825). He issued annotated editions of George Peele, Robert Greene, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Marlowe, and Beaumont and Fletcher, with lives of the authors and much illustrative matter. He completed, in 1833, an edition of
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Timon: A Play, Now First Pr...

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Specimens of English Sonnets

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