Arden of Faversham

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A Yorkshire Tragedy, a play by Thomas Middleton, is available in a reprint edition published by Kessinger Publishing (2004). The play was first published in 1608 and is classified as a Jacobean domestic tragedy. Like Arden of Faversham, it is based on an actual incident. In the county of Yorkshire, England, in 1605, a cruel, violent husband, addicted to gambling, finally repents but, stricken by shame, kills his two children and wounds his wife.

The Witch of Edmonton, a play by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford, was first performed in December 1621 or...

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