ABSTRACT
Extracts from the ‘Account of the Life and Writings of the Author’ in Malone’s Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, now first Collected (1800). Edmond Malone (1741–1812) was an Irish antiquary and Shakespearean scholar. For his general service to the study of Dryden, see J. M. Osborn’s essay in John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems (revd. edn., 1965). He was ‘the first person to call the attention of the literary public to the body of Dryden’s prose’; and he allows himself an occasional critical comment. But his main business was
