Lewis Theobald

Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) was an English Shakespearian critic, born at Sittingbourne, Kent. He was bred to the law by his father, an attorney, but took to literature. He wrote a tragedy, contributed to Mist's Journal, and thereafter in 1716 began his tri-weekly paper, the Censor. His critical writings roused Pope's ire, who became angry chiefly over his celebrated pamphlet, "Shakespeare Restored," an exposure of errors in Pope's edition, and although ruthlessly impaled in his "Dunciad," of which he was the original hero, made good his claim to genuine Shakespearian scholarship by his edition, in 1733, of the dramatist's works, an edition which completely superseded Pope's.

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