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Dewey Decimal Number: 822
EAN num: 9781417947126
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Page Count: 80
Printing Date: September 20, 2004
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1730. A neoclassical tragedy by Addison, English essayist, poet, and statesman, Cato had an immense sucess in its own time. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Joseph Addison's (1672-1719) Play "Cato: A Tragedy", very first staged in 1713, inspired many enlightened thinkers in the 18th century with its portrayal of the Roman senator Cato the Younger's (95-46 B.C.E.) willingness to commit suicide rather than to live under the tyrannical rule of Julius Caesar. The play takes place during Cato's final hours of resistance to Caesar. George Washington remarked it was his favorite play and had it performed for his men in Valley Forge during the revolution. Washington found in the play a powerful statement on patriotism, liberty, virtue and honor. He quoted from it extensively in his writings. The most famous use of the play was when he met with disgruntled officers in Newburgh, New York right after the war. They had met to contemplate taking over the government by force because the Continental Congress hadn't paid them. Washington got their attention by taking out a pair of glasses to read a letter he had recently sent to congress. As he donned the glasses he quoted a line from the play, "I fear I have grown old in the service of my country." After this remark it is reported that there wasn't a dry eye in the room and after he read the letter the officers dispersed. Nathan Hale echoed another line from the play, right before he was to be hanged by the British as a spy; "I regret, but that I have only one life to give to my country."
In addition, Addison has a great reputation as an essayist admired by none other than Samuel Johnson and Benjamin Franklin. Tories and Whigs in the English Parliament admired him. Joseph Addison studied in Oxford in Latin and Greek Classics. He served as a member of parliament, and became widely known as an essayist, playwright, poet and statesman.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in political philosophy, and history of the founding era of the United States.
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