responsible for a collation of the text and many notes. A life was contributed by Dr. Charles Symmons, and there were wood engravings after the designs of Stothard and others. The edition was frequently republished.. A reissue in 1856 included a series of critical essays by Singer's friend, William Watkiss Lloyd. Singer made the earliest attack on the genuineness of John Payne Collier's manuscript corrections in the so-called Perkins folio. The work appeared in 1853 as the 'Text of Shakespeare vindicated from the Interpolations and Corruptions advocated by J. P. Collier in his Notes and Emendations.’ Meanwhile Singer had studied Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French, and began the compilation of an Anglo-Saxon dictionary. He abandoned the project on learning that Joseph Bosworth was engaged on a similar undertaking. He issued adverse critical 'Remarks on the Glossary [by Sir Frederic Madden] of Havelock the Dane' (1829), to which Madden replied. He also printed, with an English translation, 'The Departing Soul's Address to the Body, a fragment of a semi-Saxon Poem discovered among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral by Sir Thomas Phillipps' (1845). He edited Robert Herrick's 'Poetical Works' (1846), Francis Bacon's 'Essays' (1856), and John Selden's 'Table Talk' (1847; 2nd edit. 1856). He translated Martin Luther's 'Way to Prayer' (1846), and (with original additions) 'Wayland Smith' from the French of G. P. Depping and Francisque Michel (1847). References Attribution External links 1783 births 1858 deaths English writers Shakespearean scholars