A Political Biography of Richard Steele

Charles A. Knight

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Charles A. Knight

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781851966813

Subjects:: History, Regional History after 1500

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Richard Steele (1672–1729) is famous as an early writer of sentimental drama and as half of the essay-writing team of Addison and Steele. But during 1713 and 1714 he became the leading political propagandist for the Whigs, campaigning particularly for the royal succession of the house of Hanover. In the last months of Anne’s reign he was expelled from Parliament for seditious libel. In the first months of George’s reign he was returned again to Parliament, made a manager of Drury Lane Theatre and knighted. Thereafter, Sir Richard continued to write political propaganda but took independent positions on important issues, at the expense of his friendship with Addison. As a theatrical manager he failed to effect a reformist agenda, but his final play, The Conscious Lovers, represented the exemplary drama he advocated.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-v

Dedication
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Preparing for Politics
pp 9-38

2 - Creating Whig Culture: the Gazette and the Tatler
pp 39-72

3 - The Spectator's Politics of Indirection
pp 73-104

4 - The Guardian, Parliament and Dunkirk
pp 105-134

5 - The Crisis and the Succession
pp 135-170

6 - The Politics of the Theatre
pp 171-204

7 - The Final Decade (1715–24)
pp 205-242

Notes
pp 243-264

Works Cited
pp 265-276

Index
pp 277-288

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