Charles Gildon (c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English hack writer and translator. He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters, fables, short stories, and criticism. He is remembered best as a target of Alexander Pope in Pope's Dunciad and his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and as an enemy of Jonathan Swift. Due to Pope's caricature of Gildon as well as the volume and rapidity of his writings, Gildon has become the epitome of the hired pen and literary opportunist.
He is a literary source for many biographies of Restoration figures, although he appears to have propagated or introduced errors.[citation needed] Gildon's biographies are often the only biographies available, but they have often been shown to have invention in them.[citation needed]
CharlesGildon (c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English hack writer and translator. He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters...
Gildon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: CharlesGildon (c. 1665–1724), English author Chris Gildon (born 1971 or 1972), American...
the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area The Patriot (play), a 1702 play by CharlesGildon The Patriot, a 1939 novel by Pearl S. Buck The Patriots (play), a 1943...
Aphra Behn not only accepted the novel's narrator's claims as true, but CharlesGildon even invented a romantic liaison between the author and the title character...
just punishment of the two feuding families. In mid-century, writer CharlesGildon and philosopher Lord Kames argued that the play was a failure in that...
have succeeded on stage. CharlesGildon returned to Shakespeare's text in a 1699 production at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Gildon's adaptation, entitled Beauty...
terza rima poem. It was uncompleted at the time of his death. In 1708, CharlesGildon published an adaptation of The Golden Ass, titled The New Metamorphosis...
Charles Boyle) The Furmetary A Journey to London Gerard Langbaine – The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (cont. by CharlesGildon)...
and Business Edmund Gibson – Synodus Anglicana (on the convocation) CharlesGildon (?) – A Comparison Between the Two Stages (on the "War of the Theatres")...
kind of critical dogma. Charles de Saint-Évremond placed Jonson's comedies above all else in English drama, and CharlesGildon called Jonson the father...
Great Britain, once credited to Daniel Defoe but since reattributed to CharlesGildon (d. 1724), with a description of some of the many extraneously added...
text planned by CharlesGildon, but Curll, Gildon's prospective publisher warned Manley of the work in progress. She contacted Gildon and arranged for...
seventh volume, including Shakespeare's poems, is perhaps edited by CharlesGildon. Ælfric of Eynsham's An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day of St...
particularly political fables. Also during the later part of the period, CharlesGildon and Edmund Curll began their work on hireling "Lives." Curll was a bookseller...
and Testimonials CharlesGildon – The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatic Poets Robert Gould – A Satyr Against Wooing Charles Leslie – A Short...
Pyrates. Written by Himself. Defoe's anonymity is broken in September by CharlesGildon in The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr D— De D—, of London...
Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest Charles Blount – Miscellaneous Works (ed. CharlesGildon) Gilbert Burnet – An Essay on the Memory of the...
and to consider the effect of circulation on human relations. 1709 CharlesGildon, The Golden Spy has been regarded by modern scholars as "the first,...
d'Urfey – The Old Mode and the New Richard Estcourt – The Fair Example CharlesGildon – The Patriot (adapted by Nathaniel Lee) John Oldmixon – The Governour...
December 1699 George Farquhar – The Constant Couple CharlesGildon – Measure for Measure Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour:...
Shaftesbury – Letters from the Late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth CharlesGildon – The Laws of Poetry Eliza Haywood – Letters from a Lady of Quality...
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World CharlesGildon – All for the Better (fiction) Thomas Hearne – A Collection of Curious...
Dennis, Poems in Burleseque Thomas Fletcher – Poems on Several Occasions CharlesGildon – Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz...
the World by William Congreve (1700) Guinoenda in Love's Victim by CharlesGildon (1701) Fulvia in The Ladies Visiting Dayby William Burnaby (1701) Cytheria...
Jilt in all Humours James Drake – The Sham Lawyer CharlesGildon – The Roman Brides Revenge Charles Hopkins – Boadicea, Queen of Britain Peter Anthony...
Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy (written c. 1473) CharlesGildon – A New Rehearsal (an attack on Pope, et al.) Anthony Hamilton – Memoirs...
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