Cato. A tragedy. By Mr. Addison. [Seven lines from Seneca]

People / Organizations

• Joseph Addison (Author)

Imprint

Boston: Printed by P. Edes, for Thomas & Andrews. Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street, MDCCXCIII. [1793]

Publication year

1793-1793

ESTC No.

W18169

Grub Street ID

327766

Description

56,[4]p. ; 18cm. (12mo) ; ⁰⁰

Note

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

"Epilogue. Written by Dr. Garth."--p. [57].

"A new epilogue," p. [58], 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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