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The Tragedy of Tragedies

By Henry Fielding, Darryl Domingo (Editor), Joseph Black (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), Kate Flint (Editor), Isobel Grundy (Editor), Don LePan (Editor), Roy Liuzza (Editor), Jerome J. McGann (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Barry V. Qualls (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor)
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By Henry Fielding, Darryl Domingo (Editor), Joseph Black (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), Kate Flint (Editor), Isobel Grundy (Editor), Don LePan (Editor), Roy Liuzza (Editor), Jerome J. McGann (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Barry V. Qualls (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor)
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Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successful dramatist. Among his most popular plays was The Tragedy of Tragedies: Or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, one of the most extraordinary parodies in English theater. The print version of the play incorporates, in an elaborate structure of annotations, a remarkable satire of heroic drama and of the pretensions and excesses of “false scholarship...

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LiteratureDramaEnglish DramaEnglish drama->18th century