(VIRGINIA) Behn Aphra The Widdow Ranter or The History of Ba

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(VIRGINIA.) Behn, Aphra. The Widdow Ranter, or The History of Bacon in Virginia: A Tragi-Comedy. [8], 56 pages. 4to, later polished calf gilt by Pratt, minor wear; just a bit of faint dampstaining along fore-edge; edges gilt; erased pencil signature of Brinton Coxe on flyleaf. London: James Knapton, 1690

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"The first play to be set in British colonial America"--Todd, The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. The work of a female playwright, it recounts Bacon's Rebellion. The preface is by John Dryden. "Puts forth the novel concept that Virginia is both different from and culturally superior to England"--Herman, "Behn's The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity," in Appelbaum and Sweet's Envisioning an English Empire, page 256. European Americana 690/16; MacDonald, Dryden 122; Sabin 4372. No complete copies known at auction since 1964.