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Two lamentable tragedies : the one, of the murgher of Maister Beech a Chaundler in Thames-streete, and his boye / done by Thomas Merry. The other of a young childe murthered in a wood by two ruffins, with the consent of his vnckle / Rob. Yarington.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yarington, Robert, active 1601.
- Series:
- Old English drama
- Old English drama. Students' facsimile edition
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 76 unnumbered pages : facsimile ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Two tragedies in one.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Mathew Lawe, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Church-yarde neere vnto S. Austines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, 1601 ; [Amersham, England] : Issued for subscribers by John S. Farmer, [1913]
- Notes:
- Label pasted on front end-paper reads: ... Two lamentable tragedies / Robert Yarington. Date of only known quarto, 1601. <B.M. press-mark C. 12, e. 21> Reproduced in facsimile [Tudor facsimile texts] 1913.
- The name Yarington is perhaps fictitious. The play may be an amalgamation of two earlier plays by Day, Haughton, and Chettle--"The tragedy of Thomas Merry" and "The orphan's tragedy," recorded in Henslowe's diary, but now lost. cf. Camb. hist. of Eng. lit., v. 5, p. 362-363 ; Dict. nat. biog.
- Running title: Two tragedies in one.
- OCLC:
- 4291035
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