Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… affront was offered – a practice in which he once engaged and of which he then became a vocal critic. 3 1 . See 'The History of Parliament', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online). 2 . Spectator 152, 24 Aug. 1711. 3 . Spectator 97, … established The Spectator , which was more ostensibly impartial (though it deliberately sought to moderate heightened Tory fervour). Intrinsic to the new paper was the emulation of club sociability – ‘our Society’ 6 - through characters such as Sir Roger de Coverley (for Tory comments) and Sir Andrew Freeport (for Whig ones). Steele was clearly drawing on his theatrical expertise here and …
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