The play's original title is unknown. The manuscript bears no title, and the censor, George Buc, added a note beginning "This second "Maiden's Tragedy" (for it hath no name inscribed)...". Buc was possibly comparing the play to Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Maid's Tragedy". Buc's comment confused a seventeenth-century owner of the manuscript, Humphrey Moseley, who listed the play in the Stationers' Register as "The Maid's Tragedy, 2nd Part". Buc's title has stuck and the play is usually referred to as "The Second Maiden's Tragedy".