The Blockheads: or, The affrighted officers. A farce

ID 15943
Title The Blockheads: or, The affrighted officers. A farce
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Signed Author [Anonymous]
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Volumes 1
Pagination 19, [3]
Date of Publication 1776
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Imprint Printed in Queen-Street.
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Location of Printing Boston US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 18
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Notes "Intended as a retaliation upon General Burgoyne for having written The blockade, ridiculing Yankee officers."--Hill.
Attributed to Mercy Otis Warren in Ford, P.L. Some notes ... on the beginnings of American dramatic literature, but generally omitted from lists of her works.
Printer's name supplied by Evans.
Evans, C. American bibliography,
Hill, F.P. American plays, printed 1714-1830.
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Warren, Mercy Otis. The Blockheads: or, The affrighted officers. A farceThe Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 15943, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/15943. Accessed 2025-11-19. 

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