In her final play, Aphra Behn looks across the Atlantic and reimagines
Bacon’s Rebellion, the notorious revolt whose participants took up
arms against the government of colonial Virginia with the aim of
driving the Indigenous population from the region. Heavily
fictionalized and featuring a memorable cast of both heroic and comic
characters, Behn’s long-neglected tragicomedy is an important and
entertaining contribution to the catalogue of transatlantic and
Restoration literature. This edition supplements the play with an
informative introduction and a robust selection of historical
documents that situate it in the context of the historical rebellion
and of late-seventeenth-century discourses around empire and
colonization.
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ISBN
9781460407974
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Broadview Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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