Siege of Troy

Categories: Fiction

Prose

Publisher: Sabine and Son

Illustrations: woodcuts

City: London

Document Type: Chapbook

Language: English

Price: Sixpence

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Notes:

A prose adaptation of The Iliad, possibly by the dramatist Elkanah Settle (1648-1724), and sometimes printed with his "tragi-comedy" The Iron Age. A number of versions were printed on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1790s, perhaps responding to interest in the Revolutionary wars.