[1] Written in 1626 but apparently never acted in its own era, the drama was the most intensive and detailed attempt to portray Jews onstage in English Renaissance theatre.
Though never produced before an audience, Heminges's drama was published in 1662, under the title The Jewes Tragedy, or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his son, agreeable to the authentick and famous History of Josephus.
Like Heminges's other surviving play The Fatal Contract, The Jews' Tragedy was heavily influenced by the works of Shakespeare.
"[2] (During the Restoration, John Crowne wrote a two-part drama on the same subject, titled The Destruction of Jerusalem, acted in 1677.
The Jews' Tragedy was given a reading, a "performance with scripts," at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1998, directed by Graham Watts.