Note 16 — INTRODUCTION

A Yorkshire Tragedy has been identified with Miseries of Enforced Marriage by F. G. Fleay and others. Mark Friedlaender, “Some Problems of A Yorkshire Tragedy,” S.P., XXXV (1938), 238-253, in his reconsideration of the evidence rejects this theory. He suggests that both plays were made from a single original play. In a more recent study Baldwin Maxwell (pp. 153 ff.) considers the plays to be independent works. Whatever the theory, it is certain that both plays were staged and must be enumerated separately.