Sop in the Pan for a Physical Critick
Subtitle: In A Letter to Dr. Sm-ll-t, occasiond by A Criticism on a late Mock-Tragedy, call'd Madrigal and Trulletta
By: By a Halter-Maker [i.e. Joseph Reed] ....
Publisher: Printed for W. Reeve, at Shakespear's Head, Fleet-street
Published: 1759
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Smollett, Tobias, -- 1721-1771.; Reed, Joseph, -- 1723-1787.; Reed, Joseph, -- 1723-1787.
Other titles: Madrigal and Trulletta.
Notes: The text signed at end: 'A Halter-Maker. King David's Fort, March 31. 1759'; bookseller's advertisement for 'Madrigal and Trulletta. A Mock-Tragedy', follows this. The DNB notes that Reed 'developed literary aspirations', but always regarded himself as anamateur, and, 'when he began to publish, often described himself on his title=pages as 'a halter-maker'.

Author supplied by H&L and ESTC; Robert D. Spector, in 'Tobias Smollett a reference guide', states that this work 'vehemently attacks 'Critical Review' and Smollett, particularly 'The Regicide'; the DNB gives the following account: 'On 6 July 1758 Theophilus Cibber produced, at Covent Garden, a burlesque tragedy by Reed, in five acts, called 'Madrigal and Trulletta'. It was humorously planned, but far too long, and Reed foolishly blamed Cibber for its want of success. Smollett denounced it, when published, in the 'Critical Review', and Reed replied to his critic in a pungent pamphlet' [i.e. 'A Sop in the Pan for a Physical Critic', 1759 ]

ESTC571R6; ESTC390H1 [under Halter-Maker]; Spector:(Tobias Smollet), 17 (1759).