Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays
First produced in 1713, Cato, A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund’s new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays brings together Addison’s dramatic masterpiece along with a selection of his essays that develop key themes in the play. Cato, A Tragedy is the account of the final hours of Marcus Porcius Cato (95–46 B.C.), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric, and resistance to the tyranny of Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty.
Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).
Copyright:
The copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms, is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.
People:
- Author: Joseph Addison
- Editor: Christine Dunn Henderson
- Editor: Mark E. Yellin
- Foreword: Forrest McDonald
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Life of Joseph Addison
- Addison the Essayist
- Cato, A Tragedy
- Editors’ Note
- Acknowledgments
- CATO: A TRAGEDY
- CATO: A TRAGEDY
- PROLOGUE BY MR. POPE2
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- ACT I —
- SCENE I
- SCENE II
- SCENE III
- SCENE IV
- SCENE V
- SCENE VI
- ACT II —
- SCENE I
- SCENE II
- SCENE III
- SCENE IV
- SCENE V
- SCENE VI
- ACT III —
- SCENE I
- SCENE II
- SCENE III
- SCENE IV
- SCENE V
- SCENE VI
- SCENE VII
- ACT IV —
- SCENE I
- SCENE II
- SCENE III
- SCENE IV —: —A march at a distance.
- ACT V —
- SCENE I
- SCENE II
- SCENE III
- SCENE IV
- EPILOGUE BY DR. GARTH.1
- SELECTED ESSAYS
- Tatler, No. 161
- Tatler, No. 162
- Whig Examiner, No. 5
- Spectator, No. 55
- Spectator, No. 125
- Spectator, No. 169
- Spectator, No. 215
- Spectator, No. 219
- Spectator, No. 231
- Spectator, No. 237
- Spectator, No. 243
- Spectator, No. 255
- Spectator, No. 256
- Spectator, No. 257
- Spectator, No. 287
- Spectator, No. 293
- Spectator, No. 349
- Spectator, No. 446
- Spectator, No. 557
- Guardian, No. 99
- Guardian, No. 161
- Freeholder, No. 1
- Freeholder, No. 2
- Freeholder, No. 5
- Freeholder, No. 10
- Freeholder, No. 12
- Freeholder, No. 131
- Freeholder, No. 16
- Freeholder, No. 29
- Freeholder, No. 34
- Freeholder, No. 39
- Freeholder, No. 51
- the life and character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis
- the life and character of M. Cato of Utica[ ]