Sidney Lee
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Born | Solomon Lazarus Lee 5 December 1859 Bloomsbury, London, England |
Died | 3 March 1926 Kensington, London, England | (aged 66)
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Nationality | English |
Education | City of London School |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Relatives | Elizabeth Lee (sister) |
Sir Sidney Lee
Biography
Lee was born Solomon Lazarus Lee in 1859 at 12 Keppel Street,
Lee wrote over 800 articles in the Dictionary, mainly on Elizabethan authors or statesmen.[1] His sister Elizabeth Lee also contributed. While still at Balliol, Lee had written two articles on Shakespearean questions, which were printed in The Gentleman's Magazine. In 1884, he published a book about Stratford-upon-Avon, with illustrations by Edward Hull. Lee's entry on Shakespeare in the 51st volume (1897) of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare (1898), which reached its fifth edition in 1905.
In 1902, Lee edited the Oxford
Lee received a
Works
Besides the editions of English classics, Lee's works include:
- Queen Victoria: A Biography (1902)
- Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth century (1904),[5] based on his Lowell Institute lectures at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1903
- Shakespeare and the Modern Stage (1906)[1]
- Wikidata Q107333538
- "Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance". Proceedings of the British Academy, 1915–1916. 7: 121–143. 1976. Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy (1915)
- Shakespeare's England : an account of the life & manners of his age (1916, with Walter Alexander Raleigh)
- King Edward VII, a Biography (1925)[6] (The second volume of the biography was completed, after Lee's death, by S. F. Markham and published in 1927. See "King Edward VII: A Biography: Volume II: The Reign, 22nd January 1901 to 6th May 1910" by Sir Sidney Lee [New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927], page vi.)
There are personal letters from Lee, including those written during his final illness, in the T. F. Tout Collection of the
See also
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Wikisource. . The Times. p. 9. 1926 – via
- ^ "Sir Sidney Lee". Jewish Virtual Library.
- ^ "Shakespeare Lectures". The British Academy.
- ^ "Review of Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth century by Sidney Lee". The Athenaeum (4030): 73–74. 21 January 1905.
- ^ Works by or about Sidney Lee at Wikisource
External links
- Sidney Lee Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome
- Works by Sidney Lee at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Sidney Lee at Internet Archive
- Works by Sidney Lee at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by Sidney Lee at Open Library