{"id":1589,"date":"2014-04-11T00:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:56:51","slug":"the-bard-in-the-watkinson-8-theobalds-2nd-edition-of-1740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/04\/11\/the-bard-in-the-watkinson-8-theobalds-2nd-edition-of-1740\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard in the Watkinson (8): Theobald&#8217;s 2nd edition of 1740"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Theobald-1740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1590\" alt=\"Theobald 1740\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Theobald-1740-300x283.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Theobald-1740-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Theobald-1740-1024x966.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lewis Theobald (1688-1744), a lawyer who enjoyed a limited success in the commercial theater, published a <a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=473936\">194-page attack<\/a> on Pope&#8217;s edition of Shakespeare in 1726.<\/p>\n<p>Like Pope, Theobald set out his editorial program in the Preface to <a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=519359\">his edition of Shakespeare<\/a>, first published in 1733.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/04\/09\/the-bard-in-the-watkinson-7\/\">Rowe<\/a> had presented his readers with a clean page, containing his version of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays, formatted according to the conventions of the early eighteenth century and&#8211;in common with the seventeenth-century folios&#8211;lacking in annotation. Pope&#8217;s text was elegantly printed on the wider expanse of a quarto page, with generous margins . . . Theobald made a break with this general convention. In his edition, annotation became both more frequent and more intrusive on the page.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Murphy, <em>Shakespeare in Print <\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2003)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Theobald (1688-1744), a lawyer who enjoyed a limited success in the commercial theater, published a 194-page attack on Pope&#8217;s edition of Shakespeare in 1726. Like Pope, Theobald set out his editorial program in the Preface to his edition of Shakespeare, first published in 1733. &#8220;Rowe had presented his readers with a clean page, containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}