Dyce, Alexander

Dyce, Alexander

▪ Scottish editor
born June 30, 1798, Edinburgh
died May 15, 1869, London

      Scottish editor whose works, characterized by scrupulous care and integrity, contributed to the growing interest in William Shakespeare and his contemporaries during the 19th century.

      As an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, Dyce edited a dictionary of the language of Shakespeare. After serving as a curate in Cornwall and Suffolk, he settled in London and devoted himself to literature. In addition to completing William Gifford's Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley (1833) and revising his own Works of John Ford (1869), he edited the works of the dramatists George Peele, John Webster, Robert Greene, Thomas Middleton, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Christopher Marlowe. Dyce's six-volume edition of the works of Shakespeare (1857; rev. 1864–67) was a notable contribution to 19th-century Shakespearean scholarship.

      An industrious editor of the poets, Dyce published many 17th- and 18th-century works and an edition of John Skelton (1843) that revived interest in this 16th-century poet.

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