Cato : a tragedy : as it is acted at the theatres
1787
L2010F53 1795
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Title
Cato : a tragedy : as it is acted at the theatres
Edition
The second Worcester edition.
Published
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas, and sold at his bookstore, 1787.
Description
60 p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Call Number
L2010F53 1795
System Control No.
(OCoLC)207958886
Note
Signatures: [A]B-IK4/2.
"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.
"Dramatis personæ": p. [4].
Cato is known to be one of George Washingtons favorite plays and it was performed by the troops at Valley Forge. This edition includes "A New Epilogue" that connects the message of the play with the American Revolution: " ... The British Caesar too hath done the same / And damnd this Age to everlasting Fame! / Columbias crimsond Fields still smoke with Gore! / Her bravest Heroes cover all the Shore! / The Flowr of Britain, in full martial Bloom / In this sad War, sent headlong to the Tomb! ... / And for a Cato armd a Washington! / A Chief in all the Ways of Battle skilld / Great in the Council, glorious in the Field! / Whose martial Arm, and Steady Soul alone / Made Britains Legions shake, her Navy groan / And her proud Empire totter to the Throne! ..."
With: A lecture on heads, 1795; The merry wives of Windsor : a comedy, 1782; Gustavus Vasa : a tragedy, in five acts, [1794]; Quaker : a comic opera, 1794; Romeo and Juliet, 1766; The Belle's stratagem : a comedy, 1794.
Digitized images available. [Prologue and "New Epilogue"]
"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.
"Dramatis personæ": p. [4].
Cato is known to be one of George Washingtons favorite plays and it was performed by the troops at Valley Forge. This edition includes "A New Epilogue" that connects the message of the play with the American Revolution: " ... The British Caesar too hath done the same / And damnd this Age to everlasting Fame! / Columbias crimsond Fields still smoke with Gore! / Her bravest Heroes cover all the Shore! / The Flowr of Britain, in full martial Bloom / In this sad War, sent headlong to the Tomb! ... / And for a Cato armd a Washington! / A Chief in all the Ways of Battle skilld / Great in the Council, glorious in the Field! / Whose martial Arm, and Steady Soul alone / Made Britains Legions shake, her Navy groan / And her proud Empire totter to the Throne! ..."
With: A lecture on heads, 1795; The merry wives of Windsor : a comedy, 1782; Gustavus Vasa : a tragedy, in five acts, [1794]; Quaker : a comic opera, 1794; Romeo and Juliet, 1766; The Belle's stratagem : a comedy, 1794.
Digitized images available. [Prologue and "New Epilogue"]
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