Edgar Johnson Goodspeed

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed 1871-1962, American Greek scholar, b. Quincy, Ill., grad. Denison Univ. (B.A., 1890; D.D., 1928) and Univ. of Chicago (B.D., 1897; Ph.D., 1898). He taught at the Univ. of Chicago from 1898 to 1937 and gained recognition as a biblical critic. He is principally known for his translation of the Bible: The New Testament—an American Translation appeared in 1923; the wide esteem given it was extended also to The Complete Bible—an American Translation (with J. M. P. Smith, 1939), which is generally known as the Goodspeed Bible.

Tate, Nahum (1652–1715), playwright. His version of King Lear omits the Fool, makes Edgar and Cordelia fall in love, and ends happily; Dr Johnson defended it on the grounds that the original is too painful, and the full text was not restored until the 19th cent. Tate also wrote, with Dryden, the second part of Absalom and Achitophel; also the libretti of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. In 1696 he published with Nicholas Brady the well-known metrical version of the Psalms that bears their name. He was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and was pilloried by Pope in The Dunciad.