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Douce, Francis (1757–1834) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
..., Francis ( 1757–1834 ) English collector and scholar . Douce was trained in the law at Gray’s Inn. In 1807 , he joined the Department of MSS in the British Museum ( see british library ), becoming keeper later the same year. Although he resigned in 1811 , he continued to pursue his scholarly and collecting interests until his death. His principal publications, Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners ( 1807 ) and The Dance of Death ( 1833 ), drew heavily on his own collections. Douce’s library contained more than 19,000 printed...
Douce, Francis (1757–1834) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Francis ( 1757–1834 ) Antiquary and book‐collector . Although his Illustrations of Shakespeare ( 1807 ) was a pioneering collection of contemporary material, his most lasting achievement was his personal collection of books, manuscripts (including the famous illuminated ‘Douce Apocalypse’), and coins, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library,...
Douce, Francis (1757–1834) Reference library
Tom Matheson
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., Francis ( 1757–1834 ), English antiquary , sometime keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum, where he worked on the catalogues of the Lansdowne and Harleian manuscript collections. He was the author of Illustrations of Shakespeare and Ancient Manners (2 vols., 1807 ), explaining, with occasional imperfections, many obscure references in Shakespeare’s text. Tom...
Douce, Francis (1757–1834) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...presenting *Shakespeare as a dramatist in touch with the culture of the people. Douce's view of Shakespeare was shared with fellow antiquarians such as Francis *Grose and Joseph *Ritson , and stands in stark contrast to the more Romantic version of the dramatist soon to be in the ascendant in the literary criticism of * Coleridge , * Hazlitt , and * Lamb . Francis *Jeffrey 's review in the Edinburgh Review poured scorn on the pedantry of Douce's scholarship. Douce also played a key part in the revival of interest in *romance . Both Ritson and ...
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A Dictionary of English Folklore
..., Francis , ( 1757–1834 ). Although he studied for the law, he did not practise long as his lifelong passion for literary research soon prevailed. For a time he was keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum, which gave him access to such key sources as the Lansdowne and Harleian collections. Although he only published one major study, and that a literary one, Douce's name is cited as a major influence by all the leading figures of the generation of antiquarian-folklorists which emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Everybody knew him and was...
Francis Douce
Antiquarianism (Popular) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...and the professional modern study of both *language [40] and literature. The first part outlines the work of four exemplary figures, all active in diverse aspects of *popular culture [23] by the last quarter of the eighteenth century— John *Brand , Francis *Grose , Joseph *Ritson , and Francis *Douce , and one in the early nineteenth century, William *Hone . The second part explores the role of popular antiquarianism in the literary movement known as British *Romanticism . In 1725 a Newcastle clergyman, Henry Bourne ( 1694–1733 ), published a...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...of the Gravesend-boat’. As a friend and patron of Robert *Burns , he was also active in encouraging kinds of cultural practice which refused to accept a narrow notion of correct usage. Grose's *antiquarianism [35] was part of a tradition which was to include figures like Francis *Douce , Joseph *Ritson , and William *Hone , and which sought to use its researches in of fering a broader definition of the national language and culture. Others, such as Thomas *Spence , wished to reform the language in ways that would make it easier for the uneducated to...
Popular Culture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...to find that Britain's ruling classes tended to subscribe to ideologies which aspired to a unified, consensual society. As Marilyn Butler shows in this volume, the flowering of cultural *antiquarianism [35] , particularly in the popularly orientated folk collections of Francis *Douce , Joseph *Ritson , and William *Hone , displayed both a nostalgic yearning to capture vanishing organic folk-ways and a radical Romantic inclination to defend them as manifestations of a golden age of democratic *utopianism [9] . That so many late-twentieth-century...
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RITSON, Joseph (1752–1803) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...posthumously Ritson’s ‘Life’ of King Arthur , which dismissed Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Arthurian stories as beyond belief, but offered an account of Arthur that was equally fanciful. The parcel of juvenile books bought by the bibliophile Francis Douce at the sale of Ritson’s effects after his death forms the nucleus of the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, an important gathering of early children’s...
Gammer Gurton’s Garland Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
..., after Ritson’s death, a much enlarged version was issued, probably at the instigation of Francis Douce ( 1757–1834 ), a bibliophile and former Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. Douce apparently bought a parcel of Ritson’s books at the sale of his effects in 1803 , and subsequently added to Ritson’s collection of rhymes, writing new discoveries into his own copy of Gammer Gurton’s Garland . This book and others of Ritson’s form the nucleus of the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library. The first edition and the reprint of c. 1799 were the...
Brand, John (1744–1806) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...editions were commentaries on Bourne's work. Brand's additions come in the form of compilations, drawing on the researches of Francis *Grose , Joseph *Strutt , and the suggestions of Francis *Douce . They implied that popular customs warranted serious antiquarian study as part of a national tradition rather than suppression as vulgar superstition [ see *popular culture, 23 ]. Upon Brand's death (and making extensive use of Douce's notes), Sir Henry Ellis ( 1777–1869 ) edited and enlarged the compilation, which appeared as two volumes in 1813 . George A....
