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The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
The Tragedy of Tragedies Or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great Author:Henry Fielding General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Yale university press Subjects: English drama (Tragedy) Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and whi... more »te OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BIBLIOGRAPHY (Except in cases noted, the place of publication is London.) I. TEXTS 1. Separate editions of the play. Tom Thumb. A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. 1730. The Second Edition. Written by Scriblerus Secundus. Tragicus plerumque dolet sermoni pedestri. Hor. 1730. The Third Edition. 1730. Tom Thumb. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the theatres in London. Dublin, 1730. The Tragedy of Tragedies; Or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. With the Annotations of H. Scriblerus Secundus. 1731. -- There is a later impression of this first edition, which is identical with the first impression in title-page and in general form, but which contains a few corrections in spelling and punctuation. The more important of these are noted in the foot-notes of the present edition. The Third Edition. 1737. The Fourth Edition. 1751. The Fifth Edition. 1776. An edition "Printed for John Cawthorn, 1805." (In a volume with O'Hara's Tom Thumb.) Fielding's Tom Thumb. Mit Einleitung heraus- gegeben, von Felix Lindner. Berlin, 1899. -- The text of this edition, in which the orthography andpunctuation are modernized, is taken from the text of 1762, and is collated with the first edition of 1731. It has an introduction and appendix in which are given bibliographical notes, brief comments on Fielding's ...« less