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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William Aldis Wright (1831–1914)

Wright, William Aldis. An English editor, noted as a Shakespearean scholar; born in 1831; died in 1914. He was the principal contributor in Biblical geography and biography to Dr. Smith’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible’ (3 vols., 1860–63), and made an abridged edition. He edited Bacon’s essays (1862) and his ‘Advancement of Learning’ (1869); was co-editor with W. Clark, of the ‘Cambridge Shakspeare’ (9 vols., 1863–66), and the ‘Globe Shakspeare’ (1 vol., 1864); and edited the ‘Bible Word-Book’ (1866), Chaucer’s ‘Clerk’s Tale,’ the ‘Metrical Chronicle’ of Robert of Gloucester, and other works.