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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 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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    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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  • 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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    and, if by him, is perhaps his first play. The London Prodigal and A Yorkshire Tragedy – Both plays were published in quarto as works of Shakespeare, in...
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    Walter Calverley (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    (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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Prodigal; The Puritan; Sir John Oldcastle; Thomas Lord Cromwell; and A Yorkshire Tragedy. (See: Shakespeare Apocrypha.) All seven of these additional plays...
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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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  • attempts to persuade a landlady that they are, in fact, a group of actors performing A Midsummer Night's Dream.: 245  In "Ménage à Troi", he has to woo...
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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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    Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story...
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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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    "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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    Folio affair (see below). A Yorkshire Tragedy – Pavier registered the play on 2 May 1608, and published it that year with a title-page attribution to...
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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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  • "How History was made". Reading F.C. 21 January 2014. A Yorkshire Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of a Sporting Powerhouse By Anthony Clavane "Life After United...
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  • work gives a short guide to every Shakespeare play, as well as two epic poems. Asimov organizes the plays not in the usual way – as tragedies, comedies...
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  • unclear: it may contain events supposed to have occurred before Shakespeare's tragedy or it may be an early version of that play; the First Quarto in particular...
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    Thomas Middleton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from EB9)
    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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    Labour's Lost (1598). On the misattributed quarto A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) his name is spelled "Shakſpeare", a spelling that also appears on the quarto of...
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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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    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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  • The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989....
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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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    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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    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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    Thomas Lord Cromwell, and A Yorkshire Tragedy. Traditionally, for some scholars, the simple fact that Pericles is included with such a group is proof enough...
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