Steevens

Steevens, GEORGE (1736-1800), Shakespearian scholar, was born in Stepney, and received his education at Kingston and at Cambridge. He was of well-to-do family, his father being a director of the East India Company, and he was thus enabled to gratify his literary tastes to the full. He made a particular study of Shakespeare's works and times, and in 1766 issued twenty of the plays in four volumes, in which his great knowledge of early English literature was evinced. He contributed largely to various popular compilations of the day. He was on very bad terms with his contemporaries, being of an envious and most unamiable nature.