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Brutus, or, The fall of Tarquin : an historical tragedy in five acts / by John Howard Payne, Esq. ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brutus, Lucius Junius--Drama.
- Brutus, Lucius Junius.
- Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius, King of Rome, active 534 B.C.-510 B.C--Drama.
- Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius.
- Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius, King of Rome, active 534 B.C.-510 B.C.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 13-60 pages ; 15 cm
- Edition:
- Clayton's edition.
- Other Title:
- Fall of Tarquin.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : E.B. Clayton ... Sold by Jesse Smith ... Philadelphia, C. Neal ..., [between 1820 and 1829?]
- Notes:
- "Printed from the acting copy (Cumberland's edition) with remarks, biographical and critical, by D.--G., to which are added a description of the costume, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business as performed at the Theatres Royal, London.
- D-G. is George Daniel -- cf. BM, vol. XLVI, col. 985.
- 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, pub. in 1813 in the posthumous dramatic works of Cumberland. -- cf. Genest, Account of the English stage.
- OCLC:
- 15093518
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