Thomas Tyrwhitt

Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)

Ed. by Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

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Born 27 Mar 1730
Died 15 Aug 1786
Activity 1750-1786

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Born in England
Active in England

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Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–86) was an eminent historian of classical texts, an early pioneer in the nascent field of English textual scholarship, the most prominent authority on Chaucer in the eighteenth century, and the first editor of Thomas Chatterton’s (1752-70) Rowley poems. In addition to extensive work on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aesop, and other ancients, Tyrwhitt also contributed a number of emendations and explanatory notes to George Steevens’ (1736-1800) 1778 revision of Samuel Johnson’s (1709-84)

Works of Shakespeare

and the subsequent variorum collections. In his own right he wrote a revisionist

Observations and Conjectures upon some Passages of Shakespeare

(1766) and produced a standard edition of

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer

in five volumes (1775–8).

The

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Citation: Cook, Daniel. "Thomas Tyrwhitt". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 September 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4497, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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