Alexander Dyce

Scottish editor
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Born:
June 30, 1798, Edinburgh
Died:
May 15, 1869, London (aged 70)
Notable Works:
Thomas Middleton

Alexander Dyce (born June 30, 1798, Edinburgh—died May 15, 1869, London) was a 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 ...(100 of 154 words)