Chapter XXVIII: Appendix: J

FIELDING'S _Tom Thumb_

This play appears to have carried some political significance in Fielding's day; if it was not, indeed, written with a political intention. This may be gathered from an article in the _Daily Post_ of March 29, 1742, apropos of a performance of the _Tragedy of Tragedies_, that night, at Drury Lane. The article attributes, in detail, political intentions to the _Tragedy_--"a Piece at first calculated to ridicule some particular Persons and Affairs in Europe (at the Time it was writ) but more especially in this Island."

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