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The Spanish Tragedy (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Thomas Kyd
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Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904271604
SKU
V9781904271604
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About Thomas Kyd
Clara Calvo, University of Murcia, Spain Jesus Tronch, University of Valencia, Spain
Reviews for The Spanish Tragedy (Arden Early Modern Drama)
The Spanish Tragedy has a long stage history which Calvo and Tronch summarize concisely [in this book]. Professional performances up to 2010 are documented, but amateur performances, often ignored by critics, are also shown to yield interesting insights.
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