Yorkshire Tragedy
Author: first_name: Thomas
last_name: Middleton
Language: English
Year: 1619

<b>A Yorkshire Tragedy: Not So New as Lamentable and True (1619)</b> tells the gruesome tale of Walter Calverly who stabbed his wife and killed his two young sons in April 1605. This recording is based on the text of the second quarto, which was attributed to William Shakespeare on its title page.  <br><br>This transcription is based on the 1619 quarto at the Boston Public Library. Students completed the transcription in the fall of 2013 for English 422 (Seminar on Renaissance Drama: Gender and