The Spanish Tragedy
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594
The Spanish Tragedy - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy Release date is 2011-02-19
Produced by Richard Schwarz Produced by Richard Schwarz
"The Spanish Tragedy" by Thomas Kyd is an Elizabethan tragedy written between 1582 and 1592. This groundbreaking work established the revenge play as a new genre in English theatre. The play features violent murders and personifies Revenge as its own character, influencing countless later works including Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Highly popular in its time, it contains elements like a play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost seeking vengeance. The work is considered one of the most influential plays of Renaissance theatre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
English drama Tragedies (Drama)
PR
The Spanish Tragedy - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy Release date is 2011-02-19
Produced by Richard Schwarz Produced by Richard Schwarz
"The Spanish Tragedy" by Thomas Kyd is an Elizabethan tragedy written between 1582 and 1592. This groundbreaking work established the revenge play as a new genre in English theatre. The play features violent murders and personifies Revenge as its own character, influencing countless later works including Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Highly popular in its time, it contains elements like a play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost seeking vengeance. The work is considered one of the most influential plays of Renaissance theatre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
English drama Tragedies (Drama)
PR