Iago display’d. The Contents. Chap. I. How Cassio accused Iago of Corruption.. Chap. II The various Ways by which Iago endeavour'd to destroy Cassio ... Chap. VII. How Roderigo challeng’d Cassio; with the event of their combat

London: printed for A. Moore, and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet sellers of London and Westminster, 1731. Second edition. 40 pp. 8vo. Removed. Fine. Second edition. 40 pp. 8vo. A most interesting political suabble recast as a Shakesperian fable. The affair begun earlier in the year with the publication of Sir William Yonge's "Sedition and Defamation Display'd", an attack on the opposition press and a defence of the administration of Robert Walpole (Iago). Yonge's pamphlet was directed generally against the variouswriters for "The Craftsman", but inluded particulaily venomous remarks about William Pulteney (Cassio) who quickly struck back in his "Proper Repkly to a Late Scruoilous Libel. Pulteney, however, mistook his adversary and directed his abuse at a young Supporter of the Walpole régime, Lord Hervey (Roderigo). A duel ensued, in Hyde Park, but the combatants escaped wthout serious harm.


The ESTC attribution of this satire to Lord Hervey himself seemsvery unlikely. The bookseller's name in the imprint is a fiction, used at thi period by the opposition press to evade the authorities.