Authority Cited: Theobald
Author name and dates: Lewis Theobald (1688-1744)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; poet; playwright; corrected Pope Shakespeare text errors; made Dunce by Pope; SJ: zealous for minute accuracy
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Theobald cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. One Theobald cite added in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. A Theobald verse, cited as "Ballad" is included in the Dict. Grammar of the English Tongue as an example of the anapestic verse form. See Yale vol. 18, p.360. The edition of Theobald used by SJ is unknown.]
Text in the above edition and in the 1765 SJ Shakespeare edition: "If this inference be not sometimes like an anachronism or prolepsis...."]
Author name and dates: Lewis Theobald (1688-1744)
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; poet; playwright; corrected Pope Shakespeare text errors; made Dunce by Pope; SJ: zealous for minute accuracy
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Theobald cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. One Theobald cite added in 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. A Theobald verse, cited as "Ballad" is included in the Dict. Grammar of the English Tongue as an example of the anapestic verse form. See Yale vol. 18, p.360. The edition of Theobald used by SJ is unknown.]
- The works of Shakespeare: in eight volumes. Collated with the oldest copies, and corrected: with notes, explanatory, and critical: by Mr. Theobald, 2nd edition, 1740 London; engle (Dict.: "An alteration of Theobald's for angel"; the headword engle does not appear in the 1773 Dict.); prolepsis [BKG Note: The prolepsis quote in the 1773 Dict. appears to be from the Preface of The works of Shakespeare, but is inexact, perhaps from memory.
Text in the above edition and in the 1765 SJ Shakespeare edition: "If this inference be not sometimes like an anachronism or prolepsis...."]