Author:Lewis Theobald

Lewis Theobald
(1688–1744)

Works

• Persian Princess (1711)
• The Life and Character of M. Cato Utica (1713) (transcription project)
• (tr.) Electra, a tragedy (1714) (external scan) [1777 repr.]
• (tr.) Oedipus, King of Thebes (1715) (external scan)
• Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh (1719) (external scan)
• Shakespear Restored, or a Specimen of the many Errors as well committed as unamended by Mr Pope in his edition of this Poet (1726)
• Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers (1726)
• The Works of Shakespeare: In Seven Volumes (1733)
• "Preface by Theobald" in The Plays of William Shakspeare (1778)

Works about Theobald

• "Theobald, Lewis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Theobald, Lewis," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Theobald, Lewis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lewis Theobald," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (p. 131), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)