"Those stubborn principles": From stoicism to sociability in Joseph Addison’s Cato

Joseph Addison’s 1713 play, Cato: A Tragedy, dramatizes the final days of Cato the Younger’s resistance to Julius Caesar before his eventual suicide at Utica in 46 BC. Although Addison initially seems to present Cato as a model for emulation, we argue that Addison is ultimately critical of both Cato...

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Main Authors: HENDERSON, Christine Dunn, YELLIN, Mark
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3283
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4547/viewcontent/StubbornPrinciples_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English