Dyce, Alexander (1798–1869)

Scottish critic and scholar. He is known for his annotated editions of the early dramatists and poets, including John Webster 1830, Thomas Middleton 1840, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 1843–46, and Christopher Marlowe 1850. His scholarly edition of Shakespeare appeared 1857. Dyce also edited the poems of, among others, Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, and the critical and theological works of Richard Bentley.

Born in Edinburgh and educated at Oxford, Dyce was ordained, but in 1825 settled in London and devoted his time to literature.

He published two early Shakespeare plays which he had discovered, namely Timon of Athens and Sir Thomas More.