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Publisher:Project Gutenberg, 2011
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- Author: KYD, ThomasContributor: VariousDate:Created2011Summary:
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.
Subject(s): Drama, Medieval | English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan | Play | RevengeOriginal Publisher: Project GutenbergLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 0416279201