Early editors of Shakespeare's works, beginning with Nicholas Rowe ( 1709 ) and Lewis Theobald ( 1733 ), combined material from the two earliest sources of Hamlet available at the time, Q2 and F1.

For example, many 18th-and 19th-century scholars, including Samuel Johnson, Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, and James Halliwell-Phillipps, placed the composition of Henry VIII prior to 1604, as they believed Elizabeth's execution of Mary, Queen of Scots ( the then king James I's mother ) made any vigorous defence of the Tudors politically inappropriate in the England of James I. Oxfordians cite these sources to place the composition of the play within Oxford's lifetime.

In this version, Pope replaced the " hero ", Lewis Theobald, with the poet laureate Colley Cibber as " king of dunces ".

) In 1726, the lawyer, poet and pantomime deviser Lewis Theobald published a scathing pamphlet called Shakespeare Restored, which catalogued the errors in Pope's work and suggested a number of revisions to the text.

It left the public so ignorant of its real meaning that Lewis Theobald and Benjamin Griffin published a Complete Key to what d ' ye call it to explain it.

Pope's " The Dunciad " is a satirical slaying of two of his literary adversaries ( Lewis Theobald, and Colley Cibber in a later version ), expressing the view that British society was falling apart morally, culturally, and intellectually.

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* William Wycherley-The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald ( part of Theobald's and Curll's battle with Pope and other " Tory " wits )

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In 1727, Lewis Theobald claimed to have obtained three Restoration-era manuscripts of an unnamed play by Shakespeare, which he edited, " improved ", and released under the name Double Falshood, or the Distrest Lovers.

* The eighteenth-century play The Fatal Secret by Lewis Theobald is a reworking of The Duchess of Malfi, imposing Aristotle's " unities " and a happy ending on the plot

In fact, no figure, including the " King of Dunces " Lewis Theobald ( nor, later, Colley Cibber ) is ridiculed as consistently and viciously in Dunciad as Edmund Curll.

Settle is one of the ' dunces ' in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, handing over his authority to Lewis Theobald and in the 1742 edition Colley Cibber.

: First published: an adaptation was published in 1727 by Lewis Theobald entitled Double Falshood ; or, the Distrest Lovers

: Evidence: A lost play, published only in an adaptation by Lewis Theobald entitled Double Falshood ( 1728 ).

In 1727, Lewis Theobald produced a play he called Double Falshood, which he claimed to have adapted from three manuscripts of a lost play by Shakespeare that he did not name.

However, several 18th and 19th century scholars, including Samuel Johnson, Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Edmund Malone and James Halliwell-Phillipps, dated the play's composition to before 1603.

She settles upon one of Pope's personal enemies, Lewis Theobald, and the poem describes the coronation and heroic games undertaken by all of the dunces of Great Britain in celebration of Theobald's ascension.

He also changed the hero from Lewis Theobald to Colley Cibber.

Double Falshood ; or, The Distrest Lovers is an early 18th century play by the English writer and playwright Lewis Theobald.

Lewis Theobald was working for Rich on writing pantomimes.

In 1733, Lewis Theobald wrote and directed an adaptation, The Fatal Secret ; the play imposed neoclassical unities on the play, for instance by eliminating the Duchess's child and preserving the Duchess at the end.

Lewis Theobald ( baptised 2 April 1688 – 18 September 1744 ), British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire.

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Directed by Albert Lewis and staged by George Balanchine, the stage production starred Ethel Waters as Petunia Jackson, Dooley Wilson as " Little Joe " Jackson, Katherine Dunham as Georgia Brown, Rex Ingram as Lucifer Junior, and Todd Duncan as The Lawd's General.

William Lewis Moore ( April 28, 1927 – April 23, 1963 ) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ) member who staged lone protests against racial segregation.

The program staged many elaborate and controversial plays such as It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein.

It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse ( where Lewis ' series had originated, temporarily renamed " The Jerry Lewis Theater " from September through December 1963 ) on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood.

The origin of The Medway Poets was a series of readings called " Outcrowd " staged by ( Bill ) Lewis and Earl from 1975 on the bank of the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent, in the Lamb Pub, later called Drake's Crab and Oyster House.

Not long afterwards, Phillip met his first love, Melinda " Mindy " Sue Lewis, who in 1983, out of insecurity, staged a rather dramatic accident while riding her horse and was consequently hospitalized.

More than 1, 500 one-act plays including more than 40 by Lewis Black have been staged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in the West Bank Cafe ( where Bruce Willis was a bartender ) at the base of the building.

A further production staged by the Barber Institute in Birmingham in 1966, conducted by Anthony Lewis, with Janet Baker in the title role, brought the opera back to London for the first time in over two centuries with performances later the same year at Sadler's Wells.

While both Martin and Lewis went on to successful solo careers for years neither would comment on the split nor consider a reunion.

* September 23 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches St. Louis, Missouri, ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest.

Brandon Cruz is a successful punk rocker, after a co-starring role in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Jenny Lewis, formerly of Troop Beverly Hills, is a well-known indie rock musician, and Kirk Cameron, star of Growing Pains, is now a minister of Ray Comfort's evangelist ministry The Way of the Master.

However, examples of successful such pairings include Inspector Morse and his sidekick DS Robbie Lewis, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin, Hiro Nakamura and his sidekick Ando Masahashi, and Miles Vorkosigan and his sidekick cousin Ivan Vorpatril.

In his seven years with Cape, Hart-Davis recruited a successful group of authors ranging from the poets William Plomer, Cecil Day Lewis, Edmund Blunden and Robert Frost, to the humorist Beachcomber.

Edward Lewis ( Richard Gere ), a successful businessman and " corporate raider ", takes a detour on Hollywood Boulevard to ask for directions.

Lewis went on to use this successful " gore movie " formula in later movies such as Two Thousand Maniacs!

Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?

The undercurrent of backstage hostility between " Lewis and Clark " was inspired by the team of Gallagher and Shean, who were successful professionally but argumentative personally.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by John Tenniel in 1866 was one of the first highly successful entertainment books for children.

The ' 80s proved to be the most successful time for the label, whose roster then included arena-fillers Billy Idol and Pat Benatar, seminal new-wavers Blondie and top 40 " hit machines " like Huey Lewis and the News.

While Lewis is known today on the strength of the Narnia stories as a highly successful children ’ s writer, the initial critical response was muted.

The operating system was derived from that used in the successful Lewis light machine gun with a gas piston-actuated turning bolt locking mechanism.

Watching the upheaval caused by the United Auto Workers ' successful sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, and convinced that Lewis was someone he could deal with on a businesslike basis, Taylor sought stability through collective bargaining.

* Expedition 360, a successful attempt by Briton Jason Lewis to be the first person to circumnavigate the Earth using only human power

Arthur and Lewis Tappan were successful businessmen, but commerce was never their foremost interest.

Despite successful businesses like the John Lewis Partnership and Waitrose that are wholly managed and owned by the workforce, voluntary granting of participation is rare.

Despite a lengthy and successful movie career, working with directors like Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter, Carradine is probably best known for portraying fraternity president " Lewis Skolnick " in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films and the father, " Sam McGuire ", on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.

From May to July 2008, Dr Lewis initiated and organised the successful campaign to change the Freedom of Information Act in order that a High Court ruling, obtained by a journalist on the Sunday Telegraph, that 14 MPs ' home addresses should be published, could never be repeated in respect of any other Parliamentarians.

" Berg's husband, Lewis, who became a successful consulting engineer after the loss of his job which prompted her to write the initial radio script, refused to be photographed with his wife for publicity purposes, as he felt this was infringing on her success.

By 1966, Lewis was one of the nation ’ s most successful jazz pianists, topping the charts with " The In Crowd ", " Hang On Sloopy ", and " Wade in the Water ".

In 1803, with the successful purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France, President Thomas Jefferson ordered an expedition to the west coast, which was led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

After meeting Jerry Langford ( Lewis ), a successful comedian and talk show host, Rupert believes his " big break " has finally come.

Professor Julius Kelp ( Jerry Lewis ), is a nerdy, unkempt, buck-toothed, introverted, accident prone, socially inept university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are less than successful ... and hilariously destructive.