A Yorkshire Tragedy
Yorkshire Tragedy, A Author: Anon. (Middleton or Shakespeare?)
First Performance: c.1605–7, London
Published: 1608
Genre: Trag. in 10 scenes; blank verse and prose
Setting: Calverley Hall, Yorkshire, and its environs, 1605
Cast: 14 m, 2 f, extras
The first scene appears to be a flashback: the prospective Husband is a dissolute gambler, who, unknown to his loyal and virtuous bride, has lost all his money, even using his younger brother as a guarantor. Moreover, he has already been secretly married to another woman. Once married to his present long-suffering Wife, he abuses her and demands that she should sell her dowry to finance his loose living. He ignores the pleas of his friends and is wounded in a duel, when one defends the Wife's honour. The Wife finds him a place at court, but the Husband...
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