Fatal curiosity
Subtitle: a true tragedy of three acts
By: as it is acted at the New theatre in the Hay-market ; by Mr. Lillo.
Contributors: Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 40047.
Publisher: Printed for John Gray
Published: 1737
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 47
Other titles: Guilt its own punihment.
Notes: "Dramatis personae": p. 4.

First edition.

Revised by Henry Fielding, who wrote the prologue. cf. W. L. Cross. The history of Henry Fielding.

First performed 27 May 1736. Generally performed under title: Guilt its own punishment; or, Fatal curiosity.

"The play is based on a contemporary narrative, first put forth in a pamphlet entitled 'Newes from Perin in Cornwall' and afterwards retold in Frankland's 'Annals,' 1681, but more probably first known to Lillo through the medium of an old ballad, of a murder which had actually taken place at Bohelland Farm, near Penryn, in September 1618." - Dictionary of national biography.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 40047)