Authority Cited: Betterton
Author name and dates: Thomas Betterton (1635?-1710)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) Miscellaneous poems and translations : by several hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest ... By Mr. Pope, the 4th edition, 1722 London : Printed for Bernard Lintot [BKG Note: per the DNB, Betterton's versions of Chaucer were edited by Pope and first published in 1712 after Betterton's death. Per Yale Vo. 23, p.1065, SJ was told by [Walter] Harte that the Chaucer versions were Pope's own. In The Younger Johnson's Texts of Pope, The Review of English Studies, 1 May 1985, Vol.36, pp.180-198, Treadwell Ruml concludes that for most of the Dict. quotations of early Alexander Pope works "... Johnson used the third (1720) or, more probably, the fourth (1722) edition of Lintot's Miscellany." About 3 Betterton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 7 cites in Dict. vol. 2; 1 cite added in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Betterton (1635?-1710)
BKG Bio-tweet: Actor and dramatist of high character; esteemed by contemporaries; married Saunderson first woman (1660) Shakespeare actor
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) Miscellaneous poems and translations : by several hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest ... By Mr. Pope, the 4th edition, 1722 London : Printed for Bernard Lintot [BKG Note: per the DNB, Betterton's versions of Chaucer were edited by Pope and first published in 1712 after Betterton's death. Per Yale Vo. 23, p.1065, SJ was told by [Walter] Harte that the Chaucer versions were Pope's own. In The Younger Johnson's Texts of Pope, The Review of English Studies, 1 May 1985, Vol.36, pp.180-198, Treadwell Ruml concludes that for most of the Dict. quotations of early Alexander Pope works "... Johnson used the third (1720) or, more probably, the fourth (1722) edition of Lintot's Miscellany." About 3 Betterton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 7 cites in Dict. vol. 2; 1 cite added in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below.]
- Chacer's Characters: The Prioress: The quote for stateliness appears on p. 246 of the work above. The Knight: town (added in 1773 Dict.), p. 241
- Miller of Trompington; In the title above, the quote for plashy, p. 271; whittle, p.272; grist, manciple, p.273; clack, hopper, shed p. 275; sack, p. 276; squab, p. 278.
- Betterton (no work cited);