ABSTRACT
From A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, Vol. IX (1739). This translation of the Dictionnaire histoire et critique of Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) included ‘several thousand lives never before published’, especially designed to fill the gaps in British biography. For his life of Shakespeare, Thomas Birch (1705-66) used the accounts of Rowe, Theobald and Pope; for critical and scholarly comments he was furnished with manuscript remarks by Warburton.
