Alexander Dyce

Alexander Dyce

Alexander Dyce (30 June 1798 - 15 May 1869) 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 James Shirley left unfinished by William Gifford, and contributed biographies of Shakespeare, Pope, Akenside and Beattie to Pickering's "Aldine Poets". He also edited (1836-1838) Richard Bentley's works, and "Specimens of British Sonnets" (1833). His carefully revised edition of John Skelton, which appeared in 1843, revived interest in that trenchant satirist. In 1857 his edition of Shakespeare was published by Moxon; and the second edition was issued by Chapman & Hall in 1866. He also published "Remarks on Collier's and Knight's Editions of Shakespeare" (1844); "A Few Notes on Shakespeare" (1853); and "Strictures on Collier's new Edition of Shakespeare" (1859), a contribution to the Collier controversy, which ended a long friendship between the two scholars.

Dyce was closely connected with several literary societies, and undertook the publication of Kempe's "Nine Days' Wonder" for the Camden Society; and the old plays of "Timon of Athens" and "Sir Thomas More" were published by him for the Shakespeare Society. He was associated with Halliwell-Phillips, John Payne Collier and Thomas Wright as one of the founders of the Percy Society, for publishing old English poetry. Dyce also issued "Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers" (1856).

By the time of his death, Dyce had collected a valuable library, containing many rare Elizabethan books, and this collection was left to the South Kensington Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum). His wide reading in Elizabethan literature enabled him to explain much that was formerly obscure in Shakespeare. While preserving all that was valuable in former editions, Dyce added much fresh matter. His "Glossary", a large volume of 500 pages, was the most exhaustive that had appeared.

"This entry is updated from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica."

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* [http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/dyce_collection/index.html Dyce Collection in the National Art Library]


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