ABSTRACT
A Yorkshire Tragedy is a short but intense domestic tragedy published in London in 1608. It was entered that year in the Stationers' Register as 'written by WYLLIAM SHAKESPERE', and the title pages of the 1608 and 1619 quarto editions both state that it was 'Written by W. Shakspeare'. 1 Indeed, A Yorkshire Tragedy has more bits of external evidence connecting it to Shakespeare than do several of his genuine plays, and this connection with Shakespeare has lead to most of the attention that the play has received. On the stage, A Yorkshire Tragedy was apparently first performed by Shakespeare's company and later adapted for performance in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, however, two productions - in two unexpected places - returned to the original text for brief revivals of the play.
