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Isaac Bickerstaffe

Isaac Bickerstaffe c.1735-c.1812, English dramatist, b. Ireland. Included among his comedies and ballad operas are The Maid of the Mill (produced in 1765) and The Padlock (produced in 1768).

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Bickerstaff, Isaac

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Bickerstaff, Isaac, a fictitious person invented by Swift. A cobbler, John Partridge, claiming to be an astrologer, had published predictions in the form of an almanac. Swift in the beginning of 1708 produced a parody entitled Predictions for the Ensuing Year, by Isaac Bickerstaff, in which he foretold the death of Partridge on 29 March. On 30 March he published a letter giving an account of Partridge's end. Partridge indignantly protested that he was still alive, but Swift retorted in a Vindication proving that he was really dead. Other writers took up the joke, and Steele, when he launched the Tatler in 1709, adopted the name of Bickerstaff for the supposed author.

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Tatler

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Tatler. A periodical edited by Richard Steele under the pseudonym ‘Isaac Bickerstaff ’, it appeared three times a week between April 1709 and January 1711. Addison was an important collaborator. Mixing news, political opinion, and social comment, the Tatler gradually assumed the format to be made familiar by the Spectator of a single essay on a social, moral, literary, or philosophical theme.

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