Cato. A tragedy. As it is acted at the theatres. By Mr. Addison. [Seven lines from Seneca] Now published to aid elocution in the schools of the United States.

People / Organizations

Joseph Addison (Author)

Imprint

Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: by Isaiah Thomas. And sold at his bookstore, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]

Publication year

1787-1787

ESTC No.

W18167

Grub Street ID

327764

Description

60p. ; 12⁰

Note

"Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3].

"A new epilogue," p. 60, is a shortened version of A new epilogue to Cato, composed by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall in 1778 for the Bow Street Theater at Portsmouth, N.H., and first printed anonymously in the New Hampshire gazette, Portsmouth, 31 March 1778. Another version was printed as Epilogue to Cato in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems, Portsmouth, 1801, p. 107-110, and still another is reprinted under this title in Occasional addresses, edited by Laurence Hutton and William Carey, New York, Dunlap Society, 1890.

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Cato. A tragedy. As it is acted at the theatres. By Mr. Addison. [Seven lines from Seneca] Now published to aid elocution in the schools of the United States.