Steele, Sir Richard
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Steele, Sir Richard (1672–1729), English soldier, politician, essayist, pamphleteer, and incidentally dramatist, in which capacity he was one of the first to temper the licentiousness of Restoration drama with sentimental moralizing. His three early comedies—
The Funeral; or, Grief à-la-mode (1701),
The Lying Lover; or, The Ladies' Friendship (1703), and
The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fools (1705)—had only a moderate success, and he turned his attention to founding and editing, with
Addison, the
Tatler (1709–11) and the
Spectator (1711–12), and also the first English theatrical periodical, the
Theatre, which appeared twice a week from 1719 to 1720. It was not until 1722 that he produced his last and most important play,
The Conscious Lovers, a sentimentalized adaptation of
Terence's Andria, marked throughout by a high moral tone and given at
Drury Lane under Colley
Cibber's direction. It was a great success, and was immediately translated into German and French, exercising an immense influence on the current European drift towards
comédie larmoyante.
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Living in supernova street; It's London's star-studded street and the cast is growing. If you need to live with the in-crowd then Steele's Road is the fashionable address, says Adam Edwards.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...long as anyone can remember the Sir Richard Steele pub at the scruffy end of Hampstead...in Belsize Park. Opposite the Sir Richard Steele is a pub called The Load of Hay...haymakers crossed the road to the Sir Richard Steele where they heckled and...
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The perpetual busman's holiday: Sir Cliff Richard and British pop musicals.
Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...1963). In the film, Cliff Richard plays a mechanic who with some...of popular music, and Cliff Richard's career perhaps has substantiated...traditional musical film. Cliff Richard held a preeminent position...coffee bar in Soho, where Tommy Steele was discovered and Cliff played...
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POLICE FIND SHOOTING SUSPECT DURING RAID OF ALBANY APARTMENT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/28/1997; 700+ words
; ...with white trim, Jaquan Steele, 22, of the Bronx...Duncan with a firm ``Yes sir,'' Steele was arraigned and sent...Albany Detective Lt. Richard Ellison said Friday...witnesses told police that Steele, who allegedly has been...
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Rule Britannia? History painting in 18th-century Britain.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...the Weekly Register: `Sir James Thornhill and Mr...seen by critics like Sir Richard Steele as merely decorative and...1711 in the Spectator Steele doubted whether `the...good history painting. Steele might have been impressed...
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Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection Between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...legend first took written form in Richard Ligon's A True and Exact History...slavery (Felsenstein 55-80). Sir Richard Steele amplified the story and made it...of essays on March 13, 1711. Steele injected emotionalism into the...
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You've got to rattle dem ol' bones
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Next came news that the skull of Sir Richard Steele has been found in a lead casket in a Carmarthen church. Sir Richard, I need hardly remind Independent...to convince us how important and Steele-like are its characteristics...
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The club that really took the biscuit; DRUNK ON IDEAS: Hogarth's Midnight Modern Conversation was inspired by groups such as the Kit-Cats.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 8/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...day, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. However, such literary...Duke of Marlborough and Sir Robert Walpole, the country...characters, it has to be Sir Richard Steele, the rackety Irishman...smartly uniformed footmen. Steele happily explained that...
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Wales' rich and varied culture has plenty to offer literary tourists.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 1/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...collaborator, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele began magazine writing in London...the Spectator and two years later Steele helped to create The Guardian...of today's daily newspaper. Steele was born in Dublin, but his second...
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Brain fitness
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 2/15/2005; ; 211 words
; "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - English playwright Sir Richard Steele, 1710
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Class, authorship and the social intertexture of genre in Restoration theater.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...values and tastes. From the 1690s onward Sir Richard Blackmore, Daniel Deft)e, Sir Richard Steele, and others devalue comedic satire and wit...Arts."(3) Developing this position, Steele's redefinition of "Gentile Comedy" in...
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Sir Richard Steele
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Richard Steele The British essayist, dramatist, and politician Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) is best known for his collaboration with Addison on...
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Steele, Sir Richard
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Steele, Sir Richard (1672–1729). Irish writer...Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Steele entered the army before turning to writing plays. Appointed gazetteer in 1707, Steele embarked on a hugely successful journalistic...
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Steele, Richard (1672–1729)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
STEELE, RICHARD (1672 – 1729) STEELE, RICHARD (1672 – 1729), English essayist and dramatist. Steele's name is associated with that of Joseph Addison, with whom he collaborated. Born in poor circumstances in Dublin...
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Joseph Addison
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1719) founded the "Spectator" periodical with Sir Richard Steele. Joseph Addison was born on May 1, 1672, the son...the Tatler, a magazine edited by his friend Sir Richard Steele; Addison contributed in all 42 essays. The last...
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periodical
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...appear in England. The success of Sir Richard Steele 's Tatler (1709-11) and its...12), written almost entirely by Steele and by Joseph Addison , ushered...numbered among its contributors Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Macaulay...
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