The Spanish Tragedie
Language: English - ISBN: 9786256235724 - 162 pages
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Synopsis
"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.)
About Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (1558; 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors (1612). A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's, which is now known as the Ur-Hamlet.
Product specifications
| Binding | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | Monday, 10 March 2025 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 9786256235724 |
| Pagecount | 162 |
| Interior color | Black/white |
| Size | 135 x 215 mm |
| Publisher | E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books |
| Author | Thomas Kyd |
| Category | Literature > Theatre and film |