Description - Cato; A Tragedy, In Five Acts by Joseph Addison
A powerful reminder that tragedy can illuminate the politics of a nation as deftly as its passions. Cato; A Tragedy, In Five Acts re-emerges with a renewed voice, inviting today's readers into a cornerstone of neoclassical drama. This restoration of Joseph Addison's classic tragedy blends taut verse, disciplined structure, and urgent ideas. Its form-five-act architecture, poised rhetoric, and keen eye for character-speaks to theatre lovers and academic study alike. The drama's spine is a dialogue between virtue and tyranny, a meditation on republican virtue, political liberty, and the moral costs of power. With its early eighteenth-century sensibility, the play sits squarely in the English theatre tradition while speaking to contemporary concerns about governance and conscience. A note of literary and historical significance accents the page: Cato helped shape a generation of readers and writers, contributing to the lineage of London theatre and to the broader conversation about liberty, virtue, and duty. This edition is more than a reprint; it is a crafted cultural treasure designed for classroom reading and serious study, as well as for the reader who cherishes Shakespearean drama and the great works of Restoration and classical tragedy. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, restored for today's and future generations. A collectible heritage title that invites both casual readers and classic-literature collectors to explore a storied landmark of theatre and political reflection.
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Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. the Third Edition, Etc. Edited by Thomas Tickell.
Maxims, observations, and reflections, moral, political, and divine. By Mr. Addison.
