1723 Sir Richard Steele WORKS Comedies Isaac Bickerstaff Plays Drama Playwright

$160.0 Buy It Now or Best Offer
free,30-Day Returns

Seller Store
() %,

Location: Jasper, Georgia, United States
Ships to: US,
Item: 185742256468

Seller Notes:“299 Year Old Book Age Appropriate”
Binding:Leather
Language:English
Special Attributes:1st Edition
Author:Sir Richard Steele
Publisher:Bernard Lintot, London 1723
Topic:Dramatic Comedies Plays
Subject:Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile:Original

eBay Offered: 1723 The Dramatick Works of Sir Richard Steele containing the following COMEDIES The Funeral ;The Tender Husband; The Lying Lover London. Printed For J.T. And Sold by Bernard Lintot 1723. Small Vo 7″ X 4″ Speckled Calf leather, five Bands ,gilt, label lacking, frontispiece Sir Richard Steele, by George Vertue (1684-1756 )A8, the separate title pages for each play dated 1723, 251 pages bookseller list–Complete. *****Sir Richard Steele, pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, (born 1672, Dublin, Ire.—died Sept. 1, 1729, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales), English essayist, dramatist, journalist, and politician, best known as principal author (with Joseph Addison) of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator. . In 1701 Steele wrote his first comedy, The Funeral. Performed at Drury Lane “with more than expected success,” this play made his reputation and helped to bring him to the notice of King William and the Whig leaders. Late in 1703 he followed this with his only stage failure, The Lying Lover, which ran for only six nights, being, as Steele said, “damned for its piety.” Sententious and ill-constructed, with much moralizing, it is nevertheless of some historical importance as one of the first sentimental comedies. A third play, The Tender Husband, with which Addison helped him (1705), had some success. Steele’s most important appointment in the early part of Queen Anne’s reign was that of gazetteer—writer of The London Gazette, the official government journal. Although this reinforced his connection with the Whig leaders, it gave little scope for his artistic talents, and, on April 12, 1709, he secured his place in literary history by launching the thrice-weekly essay periodical The Tatler. Writing under the name (already made famous by the satirist Jonathan Swift) of Isaac Bickerstaff, Steele created the mixture of entertainment and instruction in manners and morals that was to be perfected in The Spectator. “The general purpose of the whole,” wrote Steele, “has been to recommend truth, innocence, honour, and virtue, as the chief ornaments of life”; and here, as in the later periodical, can be seen his strong ethical bent, his attachment to the simple virtues of friendship, frankness, and benevolence, his seriousness of approach tempered by the colloquial ease and lightness of his style. Addison contributed some 46 papers and collaborated in several others, but the great bulk of the 271 issues were by Steele himself, and, apart from bringing him fame, it brought a measure of prosperity. The Tatler’s greater successor, first appearing on March 1, 1711, was avowedly nonpolitical and was enormously successful. The Spectator was a joint venture; Steele’s was probably the more original journalistic flair, and he evolved many of the most celebrated ideas and characters (such as Sir Roger de Coverley), although later Addison tended to develop them in his own way. Steele’s attractive, often casual style formed a perfect foil for Addison’s more measured, polished, and erudite writing. Of the 555 daily numbers, Steele contributed 251 (though about two-thirds made up from correspondents’ letters).

Frequently Asked Questions About 1723 Sir Richard Steele WORKS Comedies Isaac Bickerstaff Plays Drama Playwright in My Website

www.malmobeerweek.se is the best online shopping platform where you can buy 1723 Sir Richard Steele WORKS Comedies Isaac Bickerstaff Plays Drama Playwright from renowned brand(s). www.malmobeerweek.se delivers the most unique and largest selection of products from across the world especially from the US, UK and India at best prices and the fastest delivery time.

What are the best-selling 1723 Sir Richard Steele WORKS Comedies Isaac Bickerstaff Plays Drama Playwright on www.malmobeerweek.se?