The Beggar's Opera and Other Eighteenth-Century Plays (Everyman's Library)

This unique selection of plays represents the major achievements in English drama between the Restoration and Romantic periods. Plays included are: Addison's political drama Cato; Henry Fielding's burlesque Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great; George Lillo's tragedy The London Merchant; and Richard Sheridan's The School for Scandal.