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Edmond Malone

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Noun1.Edmond Malone - English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)Edmond Malone - English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)


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Isaac Reed, who collaborated with Steevens in their edition of 1783 noted the current "zeal for elucidating Shakespeare" (92), which led to the major scholarly work of Edmond Malone in examining early printings of the plays and attempting to establish the order in which they were composed.
One of the things that recommends this book is that Keevak constantly reminds us that far from being simply a recent concern, the controversy surrounding Shakespeare's sexuality, and particularly the sexuality depicted in the Sonnets, was well in place by the end of the eighteenth century, with George Stevens refusing to publish an edition of the Sonnets on essentially moral grounds and criticizing Edmond Malone for doing so.
Bawcutt has made a careful study of all eighteenth- and nineteenth-century manuscript traces of the office book left by scholars and antiquaries, the best known of whom include Edmond Malone, George Chalmers, and J.
 
 
 
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