A Yorkshire Tragedy
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The plot of the play is based on the biographical account of Walter Calverley of Calverley Hall, Yorkshire, who was executed on 5 August 1605 for murdering two of his children and stabbing his wife.
The crimes were a well-known scandal of the day; a pamphlet on the case was issued in June 1605, with a ballad following in July. The chronicler John Stow reported the case in his Annals.[1][2] The murders were also dramatised in a play titled The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607), by George Wilkins. Scholars have disagreed on the relationship between Wilkins's play and A Yorkshire Tragedy; some of have seen one play as a source for the other, or even the work of the same author, while others regard the two dramas as essentially separate works.[3]
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781177606363
- Publisher:
- BiblioBazaar
- Date of Addition:
- 07/06/16
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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- This book is in the public domain and is freely available to all.