However, two recent editors of the play have preferred to retitle it. In his anthology "Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies", Martin Wiggins argues that since the word "second" refers to the play, not to a character (there is no "second maiden"), Buc was actually calling the play "The Maiden's Tragedy". In "Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works", Julia Briggs goes further: pointing out that the word "maiden" never appears in the play, she retitles it "The Lady's Tragedy", after the unnamed female protagonist.