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The Spanish Tragedy
Reproduction of the original: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
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The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.)
The Spanish Tragedy
The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genrethat became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, TheSpanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history ofEnglish Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain duringits war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murderedfor courting Bel-Imperia, the Duke of Castile's daughter, and decidesto take justice into his own hands… This new student edition has been freshly revised by ProfessorAndrew Gurr to incorporate the latest stage history and criticalinterpretations of the play. It also appends the scenes that were addedin 1602, discusses Elizabethan attitudes to revenge, the Senecanfeatures of the play and the significance of the Anglo-Spanish conflictin the 1580s.
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Excerpt from The Spanish Tragedy: A Play Unfortunately, this investigation is beset with great difficulties; and thus considerable discrepancy of opinion prevails even on some of the most important points. All detailed criticism, as well as a full statement of authorities - I have only room here to mention my especial indebtedness to Sarrazin's book, Thomas Kyd und sein Kreis, and Mr. Sidney Lee's article in the Dictionary of National Biography - must be reserved for my forthcoming larger edition, of which the preface and notes in this little volume form merely a short extract. Known facts of Kyd's life. Materials for a biography of Thomas Kyd are still but scanty. Yet we are now fortunate e...
The Spanish Tragedy
Excerpt from The Spanish Tragedy: A Play A splendid vista of literary connection is opened to our imagination by the end of the passage and otherwhile, for recreation after their candle-stud, having starched their beards most curiously, to make a peripatetical path into the inner parts of the City, and spend two or three hours in turning over French Doudie, where they attract more infection in one minute than they can do eloquence all days of their life, by conversing with any authors of like argument.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time
Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.
