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A Yorkshire Tragedy

by Thomas Middleton

A Yorkshire Tragedy is an early Jacobean era stage play, a domestic tragedy . The play was originally assigned to William Shakespeare, though the modern critical consensus rejects this attribution, favouring Thomas Middleton.

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English

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English

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1608

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Thomas Middleton

United Kingdom

Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobean period, and among...

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