TY - BOOK AU - Kyd,Thomas TI - The Spanish Tragedy AV - PR PY - 2011/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English drama KW - Tragedies (Drama) N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Tragedy; Release date is 2011-02-19; Produced by Richard Schwarz; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35330 ER -