by young Shakespeare and a senior collaborator

Fog on the down. Snow falls in hell. Arden must die.

Alice Arden plots to kill her husband.
With the aid of her lover, servants, neighbours and professional killers, it takes many attempts that are both savagely comic as well as tragic. Are they incompetent, or just unlucky?
Based on an actual crime of the period, this 1592 tragedy with deep streaks of savage comedy was the first play to foreground ordinary people.

Guidance – This play explores adult themes and includes depictions of violence, as well as exhibiting 16th-century attitudes that may be abhorrent today.