What Cato did: Suicide, sentimentalism, and the drama of emulation
Much recent criticism of Joseph Addison’s Cato (1713) regards the tragedy as determinedly resistant to its eponymous protagonist’s stoic heroism. Cato, it’s argued, critiques Cato. But this wasn’t how Addison’s immediate contemporaries experienced the play. For many commentators, Addison’s Cato was...
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Duke University Press
2022
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