Cato: a Tragedy and Selected Essays

Name: Cato: a Tragedy and Selected Essays
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ISBN: 9780865974432

ISBN-10: 0865974438

ISBN-13: 9780865974432

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph ADDISON, Christine Dunn Henderson, Mark E. Yellin, Marcus Porcius Cato, Forrest McDonald

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"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage." -- Joseph Addison, Cato 1713. Joseph Addison was born in 1672 in Milston, Wiltshire, England. He was educated in the classics at Oxford and became widely known as an essayist, playwright, poet, and statesman. 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 (95-46BC), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric, and resistance to the…

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List price: $14.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword by Forrest McDonald


Introduction




Cato, A Tragedy



Selected Essays


Tatler 161 ( April 20, 1710)


Tatler 162 (April 22, 1710)


Whig Examiner 5 (October 12, 1710)


Spectator 55 (May 3, 1711)


Spectator 125 (July 24, 1711)


Spectator 169 (September 13, 1711)


Spectator 215 (November 6, 1711)


Spectator 219 (November 10, 1711)


Spectator 231 (November 24, 1711)


Spectator 237 (December 1, 1711)


Spectator 243 (December 8, 1711)


Spectator 255 (December 22, 1711)


Spectator 256 (December 24, 1711)


Spectator 257 (December 25, 1711)


Spectator 287 (January 29, 1712)


Spectator 293 (February 5, 1712)


Spectator 349 (April 10, 1712)


Spectator 446 (August 1, 1712)


Spectator 557 (June 21, 1712)


Guardian 99 (July 4, 1713)


Guardian 161 (September 15, 1713)


Freeholder 1 (December 23, 1715)


Freeholder 2 (December 26, 1715)


Freeholder 5 (January 6, 1716)


Freeholder 10 (January 23, 1716)


Freeholder 12 (January 30, 1716)


Freeholder 13 (February 3, 1716)


Freeholder 16 (February 13, 1716)


Freeholder 29 (March 30, 1716)


Freeholder 34 (April 16, 1716)


Freeholder 39 (May 4, 1716)


Freeholder 51 (June 15, 1716)


Appendix: Lewis Theobald's The Life and Character of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis (1713)


Index