A dissolute husband ruins himself with gambling, lets his brother rot in prison for his debts, and in a frenzy turns on his own family at Calverly Hall. Based on the real Calverley murders of 1605, the play was printed in 1608 under Shakespeare’s name, though scholars now generally credit Thomas Middleton.
A brief, intense domestic tragedy that remains a fascinating puzzle of the Shakespeare apocrypha. Download the free EPUB.