... BLAN- CHARD. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1944. Pp. xvii + 663. $5.50. The comparative obscurity of Steele as a pamphleteer can be ex- plained only in part by the fact that his comedies and essays have overshadowed his other works. The truth is that in an age...

...Richmond P. Bond Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 A LETTER TO STEELE ON THE SPECTATOR By RICHMONDP. BOND Joseph Collet, after suffering bankruptcy, gained appointment as deputy governor of York Fort...

...John Loftis Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 RICHARD STEELE, DRERY LANE. AXD THE TORIES By JOHN LOFTIS When King Charles I1 gave theatrical patents to Thomas KilIigrew and Sir William D’Avenant, he established a precedent which made...

...Albert Furtwangler Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 THE MAKING OF MR. SPECTATOR By ALBERTFURTWANGLER Addison and Steele had a very practical reason for creating the ficti- tious editors of their periodical works: canny self...

... of things there is ostensibly no basic difference between Prospero- Douglas (president of a steel trust) and Caliban-Yank. The law for Douglas is the law for Yank-the jungle law. Douglas is more effective than Yank in living by that law under altered conditions, that is all. O’Neill’s...

... of Steele, Addison, and their known collaborators or were contributions sent in by unknown readers, they had the effect of knitting together the regular follow- ers of the two periodicals and supplied some of the most pointed comments on the manners and morals of contemporary Englishmen...

... in Bond’s introduction. How did the letters get into the collections where they are now preserved? On what basis did Steele and his collaborators decide to reject them? What value have they to the student of the early eight- eenth-century periodical or the cultural history of the period...

... series (No. 555, Dec. 6, 1712), Steele listed those who had made the most important contributions. The Persons to whom I am to make these Acknowledgments are Mr. Henry Martin, Mr. Pope, Mr. Hughs, Mr. Carey of New-College in Oxford, Mr. Tickell of Queen’s in the same University, Mr...

...Michael G. Ketcham Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 THE ARTS OF GESTURE THE SPECTATOR AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PHYSIOGNOMY, PAINTING, AND THE THEATER By MICHAELG. KETCHAM In Spectator No. 4, Richard Steele...

..., 1944. Pp. xvii + 663. $5.50. The comparative obscurity of Steele as a pamphleteer can be ex- plained only in part by the fact that his comedies and essays have overshadowed his other works. The truth is that in an age in which some of the best pens in England were devoted...

... hirelings who flung mud at Pope to help earn their keep. A Whig gentleman, with whom Steele at one time lived in great familiarity,2 Welsted would not have preferred the accusation unless he had been able in some fashion to believe in it himself. Somewhere there had lived a lady for whose death...

... edition of his English translation of Kritik der Urtheilskraft, made the following note : This jest may have been taken from Steele’s play “The Funeral or Grief h la mode” (1702) where it occurs verbatim.3 11 am quoting the text as found in the first edition (Berlin and Libau, 1790...

... for its success is the play’s strong Whig position.4 The early November productions were timed to coincide with celebrations of the Glorious Revolution, and not only Rowe’s preface but various prologues make the point that, in the words of Richard Steele during the early 1720s, “Great William...

... CONGKEVE’S FIRST RIOGRAPHEK “singularly inaccurate detail concerning Dryden and his family. These were communicated by “Corinna,” alias Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas. Part I1 also contains Incognita in full and a final tribute from Steele. Interlarded throughout are incidental remarks on Congreve’s life...

... the alleged virginity of Mrs. Bracegirdle to the 514 Reviews dramatic talents of Mr. Steele, whose Funeral, or Grief a Za Mode has just opened. On both questions, as on most others, the author is somewhat more than skeptical, and his determinedly witty carping becomes...

..., in the mode established around the beginning of the century. The mode was set by Steele more than any other. In his campaign against Restoration comedy with its endless adulterous triangles, Steele had returned to the basic Terentian formula for comedy, in which a 2 Samuel Richardson, Printer...

... for compelling violence, “tran- quilly Titicaca” (pp. 256-57). In other poems, the process is less tranquil. In “The Agonized Spires” it is a problem of painfully making sense out of an urban explosion in which everything is tormented and flowing, caught in “thrusts of the sea / Waves of steel / from...

... of realistic portrayal of everyday life. Schmid began his career as importer of English drama by trans- lating four of Steele’s comedies, in his Steelem Lzcstspiele, and Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice, as Sir Phantast; oder Es kann nicht seyn, both dated 1767. Each of the seven volumes of his important...

... delivers. And he never divulges how his “concern” and his “intention” will manifest them- selves rhetorically or how they will effect any sort of critical synthesis. The individual chapters-on Rochester, Oldham, Swift and Pope, Byron and Shelley, Burke, Addison and Steele, Richardson, Boswell...

...Helene Maxwell Hooker Brice Harris. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1940. Pp. 269. $3.00. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 326 Revkws too skillful to articulate “feeling” and “heart.” Indeed, Richard Steele in a Ta.tler paper of 1709...