(1688-1744) Editor of Shakespeare, and translator, originally an attorney, betook himself to literature, translated from Plato, the Greek dramatists, and Homer, and wrote also essays, biographies, and poems. In 1715 he puborn Shakespeare Restored, etc., in which he severely criticised Pope's edition, and was in consequence rewarded with the first place in The Dunciad, and the adoption of most of his corrections in Pope's next edition Though a poor poet, he was an acute and discriminating critic, made brilliant emendations on some of the classics, and produced in 1734 an edition of Shakespeare which gave him a high place among his editions.