Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Microform
Author Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852.

Title Brutus, or, The fall of Tarquin [microform] : an historical tragedy, in five acts / by John Howard Payne.

Imprint London : R. White, 1818.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets  LAC 40054.    ---  Available
Edition 3d edition.
Description viii, 58 p.
Series Library of American civilization ; LAC 40054.
Note "First represented at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. On Thursday evening, December 3, 1818."
"In the present play I have had no hesitation in adopting the conceptions and language of my predecessors, wherever they seemed likely to strengthen the plan which I had prescribed."--Pref.
Some entire scenes and portions of others are from Downman's Lucius Junius Brutus, 1779, and from Cumberland's The Sybil, or, The elder Brutus, published in 1813 in the posthumous dramatic works of Cumberland. cf. Genest, Account of the English stage.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 40054)
Added Author Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.
Downman, Hugh, 1740-1809.
Added Title The fall of Tarquin.

 
    
Available items only