ALEXANDER DYCE BIOGRAPHY

DYCE, ALEXANDER (1798-1869). —Scholar and critic, s. of Lieut.-General Alexander D., was born in Edin., and ed. there and at Oxf. He took orders, and for a short time served in two country curacies. Then, leaving the Church and settling in London, he betook himself to his life-work of ed. the English dramatists. His first work, Specimens of British Poetesses , appeared in 1825; and thereafter at various intervals ed. of Collins's Poems , and the dramatic works of Peele, Middleton, Beaumont and Fletcher, Marlowe, Greene, Webster , and others. His great ed. of Shakespeare in 9 vols. appeared in 1857. He also ed. various works for the Camden Society, and pub. Table Talk of Samuel Rogers . All D.'s work is marked by varied and accurate learning, minute research, and solid judgment.