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See also:MALONE, EDMOND (1741-1812) , Irish Shakespearian See also:scholar and editor, was See also:born in See also:Dublin, on the 4th of See also:October 1741, the son of a See also:barrister and a member of the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons. He was educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, and was called to the Irish See also:bar in 1767. The See also:death of his See also:father in 1774 assured him a competency, and he went to See also:London, where he frequented See also:literary and See also:artistic circles. He frequently visited Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson and was of See also:great assistance to See also:Boswell in revising and See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof-See also:reading his See also:Life, four of the later See also:editions of which he annotated. He was intimate with See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds, to whom he sat for a portrait now in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery. He was one of Reynolds' executors, and published a See also:posthumous collection of his See also:works (1798) with a memoir. See also:Horace See also:Walpole, See also:Burke, See also:Canning, See also:Lord See also:Charlemont, and, at first, See also:George See also:Steevens, were among Malone's See also:friends. Encouraged by the two last he devoted himself to the study of Shakespearian See also:chronology, and the results of his " See also:Attempt to ascertain the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order in which the Plays of See also:Shakespeare were written " (1778) are still largely accepted. This was followed in 178o by two supplementary volumes to Steevens's version of Dr Johnson's Shakespeare, partly consisting of observations on the See also:history of the Elizabethan See also:stage, and of the See also:text of doubtful plays; and this again, in 1783, by an appendix See also:volume. His refusal to alter some of his notes to See also:Isaac See also:Reed's edition of 1785, which disagreed with. Steevens's, resulted in a See also:quarrel with the latter. The next seven years were devoted to Malone's own edition of Shakespeare in eleven volumes, of which his essays on the history of the stage, his See also:biography of Shakespeare, and his attack on the genuineness of the three parts of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VI., were especially valuable.' His editorial See also:work was lauded by Burke, criticized by Walpole and damned by See also:Joseph See also:Ritson. It certainly showed indefatigable See also:research and proper respect for the text of the earlier editions. Malone published a denial of the claim to antiquity of the See also:Rowley poems (see See also:CHATTERTON), and in this (1782) as in his See also:branding (1796) of the See also:Ireland See also:MSS. (see IRELAND, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM HENRY) as forgeries, he was among the first to guess and See also:state the truth. His elaborate edition of See also:Dryden's works (1800), with a memoir, was another See also:monument to his See also:industry, accuracy and scholarly care. In 18oI the university of Dublin made him an LL.D. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his death, on the 25th of See also:April 1812, Malone was at work on a new See also:octavo edition of Shakespeare, and he See also:left his material to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Boswell the younger; the result was the edition of 1821—generally known as the Third Variorum edition—in twenty-one volumes. Lord Sunderlin (1738-1816), his See also:elder See also:brother and executor, presented the larger See also:part of Malone's splendid collection of books, including dramatic varieties, to the Bodleian Library, which afterwards bought many of his MS. notes and his literary See also:correspondence. The See also:British Museum also owns some of his letters and his annotated copy of Johnson's See also:Dictionary.
A memoir of Malone by James Boswell is included in the Prolegomena tc the edition of 1821. See also Sir J. See also:Prior's Life of Edmond Malone (186o).
End of Article: MALONE, EDMOND (1741-1812)
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