Murder mystery of Shakespeare and the play that got away

THE Broad Acres might traditionally seem to be as remote from the Bard as the Globe Theatre is from Stratford.

However, for decades Shakespeare devotees have been puzzling as to whether A Yorkshire Tragedy, published by a W Shakespeare exactly 400 years ago in 1608, should be accepted into the lesser fringes of the great man's literary canon or whether it was more likely written by the hand of a contemporary playwright, Thomas Middleton.