The Spanish Tragedy
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| {{Template}}'''''The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe''''' is an [[Elizabethan]] [[tragedy]] written by [[Thomas Kyd]] between [[1587]]-[[1590]] and first performed in [[London]] around [[1590]]. | {{Template}}'''''The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe''''' is an [[Elizabethan]] [[tragedy]] written by [[Thomas Kyd]] between [[1587]]-[[1590]] and first performed in [[London]] around [[1590]]. | ||
| - | Highly popular and influential in its time, ''The Spanish Tragedy'' established a new [[genre]] in [[English literature | English]] [[theatre]], the [[revenge play]] or revenge tragedy.Its [[Plot (narrative)|plot]] contains several violent murders and includes as one of its [[fictional character|characters]] a [[personification]] of [[Revenge]]. ''The Spanish Tragedy'' was often referenced (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 lost (theoretical) [[Ur-Hamlet]] play that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for ''[[Hamlet]]''). | + | 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 (narrative)|plot]] contains several violent murders and includes as one of its [[fictional character|characters]] a [[personification]] of [[Revenge]]. ''The Spanish Tragedy'' was often referenced (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 lost (theoretical) [[Ur-Hamlet]] play that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for ''[[Hamlet]]''). |
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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 referenced (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 lost (theoretical) Ur-Hamlet play that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet).
