Joseph Addison

1672 - 1719

Titles on this disk:

• author: Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays

Quotation:

• (28 February, 2005) In Joseph Addison’s play Cato Cato is asked what it would take for him to be Caesar’s “friend” - his answer is that Caesar would have to first “disband his legions” and then “restore the commonwealth to liberty” (1713)

About this person:

Addison was educated at Oxford, served as a member of Parliament, and became widely known as an essayist, playwright, poet, and statesman. His play about Cato was very popular in the American colonies before the Revolution.