A Yorkshire Tragedy
William Shakespeare
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Description
A Yorkshire Tragedy, printed in Tucker Brooke's Shakespeare Apocrypha from the 1918 Oxford edition, is a short domestic tragedy of a husband's ruin. The cast gives the design: Husband, Wife, a college master, a justice of the peace, and serving-men Oliver, Ralph, and Samuel. At Calverley Hall the servants gossip about their young mistress, pining in her husband's long absence in London. The Husband has gambled away his estate and his reason at the dice and the bottle. He comes home to a ruined house.
What follows is brutally short: debts, madness, and the murder of his own children. The play was printed in 1608 as Shakespeare's and is now usually given to Thomas Middleton. It draws on the real Calverley murders of 1605. Readers get the apocryphal canon at its darkest, ten scenes of a gentleman's fall with no gods and no comfort.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | William Shakespeare |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |