Brutus, or, The fall of Tarquin
Subtitle: an historical tragedy, in five acts
By: by John Howard Payne.
Contributors: Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.; Downman, Hugh, 1740-1809.
Edition: 3d edition.
Series: Library of American civilization -- LAC 40054.
Publisher: R. White
Published: 1818
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 58
Other titles: Fall of Tarquin.
Notes: "First represented at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.  On Thursday evening, December 3, 1818."

"In the present play I have had no hesitation in adopting the conceptions and language of my predecessors, wherever they seemed likely to strengthen the plan which I had prescribed."--Pref.

Some entire scenes and portions of others are from Downman's Lucius Junius Brutus, 1779, and from Cumberland's The Sybil, or, The elder Brutus, published in 1813 in the posthumous dramatic works of Cumberland. cf. Genest, Account of the English stage.

Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 40054)

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