This play made some use of works by Philip Massinger
and Thomas Middleton
.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Textual Production
Susanna Haswell Rowson
SHR
's other original stage pieces were The Volunteers, a libretto for music, published in 1795 after performance at Philadelphia in 1794, and the others unpublished: The American Tar; or, The Press Gang Defeated...