Cato: A tragedy, and selected essays: Joseph Addison

• Main Authors: HENDERSON, Christine Rodman, YELLIN, Mark E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: English Language and Literature; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3404
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.