The Unnatural Tragedy

A brand new piece of writing, that’s over 350 years old! Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy has never had any kind of performance, not even in the author’s lifetime – until now! This is partly due to the subject matter; the female characters suffer incest, rape, and emotional abuse. Preceding Marx by 200 years, she questions whether Biblical doctrine is (literally) man-made. If that is the case then only Nature’s laws exist – but what is “Unnatural”?