Rose Facebook post, 14 January 2026
Citation
“Rose Facebook post, 14 January 2026,” Rose Theatre Archive (since the 1989 discovery), accessed June 19, 2026, https://collection.rosetheatrearchive.co.uk/items/show/6622.
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Title
Rose Facebook post, 14 January 2026
Subject
The Rose Bankside FB main page
Description
"Presented in conjunction with Literature Works and the Page of Plymouth project.
Before true crime drama, there was domestic tragedy: a genre that flourished in the 1590s and early 1600s, inspired by a sensational series of recent murders.
Domestic tragedy was a radical genre because it placed the loves, sufferings, and crimes of ordinary people centre stage. At a time when ‘tragedy’ meant tales of kings and conquerors, of royal courts and battlefields, these plays showed that an everyday English home could be worthy of the dramatic reach of tragedy: from the earliest surviving true crime drama, Arden of Faversham, to Thomas Heywood’s fictional adultery play A Woman Killed with Kindness.
Yet not all of the domestic tragedies that were performed onstage were memorialised in print: along with the lost Rose play Page of Plymouth, missing domestic tragedies include Keep the Widow Waking, The Cruelty of a Stepmother and The Stepmother’s Tragedy.
This talk will explore this fleeting and ephemeral, yet significant, genre."
Before true crime drama, there was domestic tragedy: a genre that flourished in the 1590s and early 1600s, inspired by a sensational series of recent murders.
Domestic tragedy was a radical genre because it placed the loves, sufferings, and crimes of ordinary people centre stage. At a time when ‘tragedy’ meant tales of kings and conquerors, of royal courts and battlefields, these plays showed that an everyday English home could be worthy of the dramatic reach of tragedy: from the earliest surviving true crime drama, Arden of Faversham, to Thomas Heywood’s fictional adultery play A Woman Killed with Kindness.
Yet not all of the domestic tragedies that were performed onstage were memorialised in print: along with the lost Rose play Page of Plymouth, missing domestic tragedies include Keep the Widow Waking, The Cruelty of a Stepmother and The Stepmother’s Tragedy.
This talk will explore this fleeting and ephemeral, yet significant, genre."
Date
2026-01-14
Identifier
2026-01-14_RoseFacebook01a.pdf