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

People / Organizations

• Joseph Addison (Author)

Imprint

[Worcester, Mass.]: London, printed. Worcester, (Massachusetts) reprinted by I. Thomas, for N. Coverly, in Boston, MDCCLXXXII. [1782]

Publication year

1782-1782

ESTC No.

W37705

Grub Street ID

348492

Description

59,[1]p. ; 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 wa printed as Epilogue to Cato in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems, Portmouth, 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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