{"id":1627,"date":"2014-04-25T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:57:31","slug":"the-bard-in-the-watkinson-14-edmund-malones-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/04\/25\/the-bard-in-the-watkinson-14-edmund-malones-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard in the Watkinson (14): Edmund Malone&#8217;s edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Malone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1632\" alt=\"Malone\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Malone-300x247.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Malone-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2014\/04\/Malone-1024x844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 1792 the comparatively unsuccessful Shakespearean Joseph Ritson had launched a direct assault on Edmund Malone&#8217;s 1790 edition, claiming that he wished &#8220;to rescue the language and sense&#8221; of Shakespeare &#8220;from the barbarism and corruption they have acquired in passing through the hands of this incompetent and unworthy editor,&#8221; and caricatured Malone as a &#8220;<em>Paddy from Cork<\/em>&#8221; Irishman.<a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=519398\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1792 Malone proposed &#8220;a new and splendid edition&#8221; in fifteen large volumes, but the publisher cancelled his contract due to slow sales.<\/p>\n<p>Although we LACK the 1790 edition, we have the Malone-James Boswell edition of 1821, which was the final realization of Malone&#8217;s vision of 1792.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Murphy, <em>Shakespeare in Print <\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1792 the comparatively unsuccessful Shakespearean Joseph Ritson had launched a direct assault on Edmund Malone&#8217;s 1790 edition, claiming that he wished &#8220;to rescue the language and sense&#8221; of Shakespeare &#8220;from the barbarism and corruption they have acquired in passing through the hands of this incompetent and unworthy editor,&#8221; and caricatured Malone as a &#8220;Paddy [&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\/1627"}],"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=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}