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.
| Author/creator | Addison, Joseph |
| Other author | Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. |
| Other author | Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell, 1748-1808. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The second Worcester edition. |
| Publication Info | Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas. And sold at his bookstore, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787] |
| Description | 60 pages ; 18 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20178. ^A478749 |
| General note | "Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3]. |
| General note | "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. |
| References | Evans 20178 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20178). |
| Genre/form | Textbooks. |
| Genre/form | Plays 1787. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1787. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |