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Title page of the 1608 quarto, showing the attribution to Shakespeare

A Yorkshire Tragedy is an early Jacobean era stage play, a domestic tragedy printed in 1608. The play was originally assigned to William Shakespeare, though the modern critical consensus rejects this attribution, favouring Thomas Middleton.

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A Yorkshire Tragedy

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A Yorkshire Tragedy is an early Jacobean era stage play, a domestic tragedy printed in 1608. The play was originally assigned to William Shakespeare,...

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Shakespearean tragedy

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Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean...

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Domestic tragedy

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are A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), and The Witch of Edmonton (1621). Othello can be classified as a domestic tragedy. Domestic...

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Tragedy

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Tragedy (from the Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a...

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Shakespearean comedy

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grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types...

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Walter Calverley

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(1607), and, secondly, in A Yorkshire Tragedy which was first published by Pavier in 1608, under the title A Yorkshire Tragedy - not so new as lamentable...

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Globe Theatre

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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames...

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Henriad

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tragedies, but as history plays they are comparable in terms of dramatic or literary quality and meaning. When considered as a group they contain a narrative...

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The Theatre

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includes a number of important acting troupes including the Lord Chamberlain's Men, which employed Shakespeare as actor and playwright. After a dispute...

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Lachlan Nieboer

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Retrieved 21 May 2018. Taylor, Paul (19 January 2010). "Doctor Faustus/ A Yorkshire Tragedy, Stratford Circus, London/ White Bear, London". The Independent....

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Bardolatry

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"Nobody will ever write a better tragedy than Lear". However, he also wrote in a letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell, "Oh, what a damned fool Shakespeare was...

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Shakespeare bibliography

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authenticity of the Book of Plays. Brooke, Nicholas, (ed.) (1998). The Tragedy of Macbeth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 57. ISBN 0-19-283417-7. "Othello"...

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Royal Shakespeare Company

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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over...

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Amy Robsart

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developed into a tradition of embellished folklore. As early as 1608, a domestic tragedy named A Yorkshire Tragedy alluded to her fall from a pair of stairs...

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Thomas Middleton

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Dekker) Michaelmas Term (1604) A Trick to Catch the Old One (1605) A Mad World, My Masters (1605) A Yorkshire Tragedy (1605) Timon of Athens (1606) (co-written...

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George Wilkins

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crimes are dealt with in a short play, A Yorkshire Tragedy, of uncertain authorship. A number of studies have attributed to Wilkins a share in Shakespeare's...

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750)...

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Shakespeare Institute

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Shakespeare Institute has existed. The first recorded production was A Yorkshire Tragedy (Unknown Author) as The Shakespeare Institute Dramatic Society. It...

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The Plays of William Shakespeare

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plays, as Miscellaneous Observations or Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth on 6 April 1745 by Edward Cave. Hanmer produced an edition of...

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Shakespeare apocrypha

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Richard Hathwaye, and Robert Wilson. A Yorkshire Tragedy was published in 1608 as the work of Shakespeare. Although a minority of readers support this claim...

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Outline of William Shakespeare

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Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Double Falsehood Thomas of Woodstock Sir John Oldcastle Thomas Lord Cromwell A Yorkshire Tragedy Fair Em Mucedorus The Merry...

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Ghost character

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Cambridge Core. Hosley, Richard, ed. (1954) [first published 1917]. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The Yale Shakespeare (revised ed.). New Haven: Yale...

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