- Arthur Henry Bullen
Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A. H. Bullen, (
9 February 1857 ,London -29 February 1920 ,Stratford-on-Avon ) was an Englisheditor andpublisher , and a specialist in 16th and 17th century literature.His father George Bullen (d. 1894) was librarian at the
British Museum . A. H. Bullen's interest inElizabethan dramatists and poets started at theCity of London School , before he went toWorcester College, Oxford to study classics. His publishing career began with a scholarly edition of the "Works of John Day" in 1881 and continued with series of "English Dramatists" and a seven-volume set of "Old English Plays", some of which he had discovered in manuscript and published for the first time. He was also the first person to publish some early lyric poems. Bullen wrote more than 150 articles for theDictionary of National Biography , lectured on Elizabethan dramatists atOxford University and taught atToynbee Hall .In 1891 he and H. W. Lawrence went into partnership as the publishers Lawrence & Bullen. This lasted until 1900 when Bullen moved on to publish as A. H. Bullen. With Frank Sidgwick as partner, he then formed the Shakespeare Head Press and published a collected
Shakespeare and collected Yeats from their base in Stratford-on-Avon. Bullen was admired by literary figures like Swinburne and was well-known in his time for his enthusiastic scholarship and for rediscovering forgotten works of literature, like those ofThomas Campion . Because he modernised as he published, his texts are not used as standard editions by scholars today.External links
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References
*Richard Storer's article on Bullen in the "
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography " (2004)
*H. F. B. Brett-Smith's article on Bullen in the "Dictionary of National Biography" (1927)
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