Widdow Ranter, or, The history of Bacon in Virginia.
Subtitle: A tragi-comedy, acted by Their Majesties servants.
By: Written by Mrs. A. Behn
Contributors: Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Publisher: Printed for James Knapton
Published: 1690
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Bacon's Rebellion, 1676
Other titles: Bacon in Virginia
Notes: Wing B 1774; MacDonald, p. 122

First edition

Signatures: A-H4ș

The serious and historical portion of this play is founded on a contemporary pamphlet, Strange news from Virginia being a full and true account of the life and death of Nathaniel Bacon, London, 1677.  cf. Works of A. Behn, ed. by M. Summers, v.4

Dedication signed:  G. J

The Prologue, by Dryden, is the one he wrote for Shadwell's "True widow".  After his quarrel with Shadwell he gave it to Mrs. Behn for this play.  cf. Camb. hist. Eng. lit., v. 8, p. 457

According to Sabin (Bibl. amer., v. 2, no. 4372) the work "throws much light" on Bacon's rebellion, "exhibiting strongly the mismanagement of the colony, the incompetence of the authorities, etc., and the state of affairs which led to the outbreak"