Abstract
Some time before its publication in 1599, Shakespeare’s company staged A Warning for Fair Women at the Shakespeare company’s Theatre playhouse. The plays that the company chose to publish from 1597 to 1599, when they were in need of cash to help build the Globe, included Shakespeare’s most popular plays. The publication in 1599 of A Warning, not long after Richard II, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet, with its ascription to the Chamberlain’s Men, argues that it was one of the company’s more popular works and, like the others the company chose to sell to the press, it had been staged quite recently. From what little we know of the company’s full repertoire of plays in that period, A Warning was also innovatory, a new kind of domestic tragedy. Its opening was overtly designed to show how this innovation was meant to displace the other plays that were standard to the repertory, in particular Shakespeare’s histories and early tragedies.
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