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The Spanish Tragedy - Arden Early Modern Drama

by Thomas Kyd
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Elizabethan drama exploring revenge, madness, and grief.

If you're fascinated by the precursors to Shakespeare's masterpieces or love exploring themes of vengeance and the human psyche, "The Spanish Tragedy" is a must-read for you. It’s not only a cornerstone of Elizabethan drama that influenced an entire genre, but its complex characters, particularly Hieronimo, offer a profound look into the portrayal of grief and justice on the Renaissance stage. It’s historical and literary significance aside, it's a gripping story that resonates with modern themes of morality and retribution.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Spanish Tragedy - Arden Early Modern Drama

by Thomas Kyd
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ISBN: 9781904271604
Author: Thomas Kyd

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A major new edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, an outstanding landmark of Elizabethan drama. In its time, it quickly became a box office success and probably inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, as it contains a ghost, murders that demand revenge and a hero that hesitates and contemplates suicide. As a revenge tragedy, it set up the salient features of a dramatic genre that would last decades. Its hero, the aged Marshall of Spain Hieronimo, whose son is murdered at night, soon transcended the play and became the standard stage representation of grief, rhetorical passion and madness. Hieronimo's main antagonist is one of the first Machiavellian characters of English drama.

This edition explores the play in relation to its historical context and contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. It also relates the play, as a literary artefact, to other artistic manifestations of the European Renaissance and offers a fresh assessment of the play's stage history. For the first time in the play's textual history, this edition presents an integrated text inviting a reading of the play as it was published both in 1592 and in 1602.


Author: Thomas Kyd
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 392
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 14 Mar 2013
 

Elizabethan drama exploring revenge, madness, and grief.

If you're fascinated by the precursors to Shakespeare's masterpieces or love exploring themes of vengeance and the human psyche, "The Spanish Tragedy" is a must-read for you. It’s not only a cornerstone of Elizabethan drama that influenced an entire genre, but its complex characters, particularly Hieronimo, offer a profound look into the portrayal of grief and justice on the Renaissance stage. It’s historical and literary significance aside, it's a gripping story that resonates with modern themes of morality and retribution.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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