Opera of operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great.
By: Alter'd from The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great. [by William Hatchett and Eliza Haywood] And set to musick after the Italian manner. [By T. A. Arne] As it is performed at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market.
Contributors: Hatchett, William, fl. 1730-1741.; Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Three centuries of drama; Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1800
Publisher: Printed for William Rayner
Published: 1955
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Operas -- To 1800 -- Librettos.
Genres: Librettos.
Other titles: Tom Thumb the Great.
Work titles: Opera of operas.
Notes: Without the music.

"This is no more than Fielding's Tragedy of tragedies ... transformed into an opera, by converting some passages into songs, and setting the whole to music."-Biog. dram.

Micro-opaque of original in Yale University Library. New York, Readex Micropirnt, 1955. 1 card. 22.6 x 14.8 cm. (Three centuries of drama: English 1701-1750) (Three centuries of English and America plays 1500-1800)