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See also:REED, See also:ISAAC (1742—1807) , See also:English Shakespearian editor, son of a See also:baker, was See also:born on New See also:Year's See also:Day, 1742, in See also:London. He was articled to a See also:solicitor, and eventually set up as a conveyancer at See also:Staple See also:Inn, where he had a considerable practice. His first important See also:work was the Biographia dramatica (2 vols., 1782), consisting of See also:biographies of the dramatists and a descriptive See also:dictionary of their plays. This See also:book, which was an enlargement of See also:David See also:Erskine Baker's See also:Companion to the See also:Play-See also:house (2 vols., 1764), was re-edited (3 vols.) by See also:Stephen See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones in 1811, and is a valuable authority. The See also:original work by Baker had been based on See also:Gerard Langbaine's See also:Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691), See also:Giles See also:Jacob's Poetical See also:Register (1719), See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Whincop's " See also:List of all the Dramatic Authors " (printed with his tragedy of See also:Scanderbeg, 1747) and the See also:MSS. of Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747), an industrious See also:antiquary who had collected much useful material. Reed's Notitia dramatica (Addit. MSS. 25390-2, See also:British Museum), supplementary to the Biographia, was never published. He revised See also:Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays (12 vols., 1780). He also re-edited 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 See also:Steevens's edition (1773) of See also:Shakespeare. Reed's edition was published in ro vols. (1785), and he gave See also:great assistance to Steevens in his edition (1793). He was Steevens's See also:literary executor, and in 1803 published another edition (21 vols.) based on Steevens's later collections. This, which is known as the first variorum, was re-issued ten years later. He died on the 5th of See also:January 1807. His valuable library of theatrical literature was catalogued for See also:sale as Bibliotheca Reediana (1807).
See See also:John See also:Nichol's Lit. Anec. of the z8th See also:Century (vol. ii., 1812) ; and See also:Edward See also:Dowden, Essays, See also:Modern and Elizabethan.
End of Article: REED, ISAAC (1742—1807)
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