Kyd Thomas - The Spanish Tragedy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 is one of the first Machiavellian characters of English drama. This edition explores the play in relation to its historical context and contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. It also relates the play as a literary artefact to other artistic manifestations of the European Renaissance and offers a fresh assessment of the play's stage history. For the first time in the play's textual history this edition presents an integrated text inviting a reading of the play as it was published both in 1592 and in 1602.
Title: The Spanish Tragedy
Author(s): Kyd Thomas, Jesus Tronch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781904271604
Pages: 392 Pages, 15 B/W
Publication Date: 3/14/2013
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama
Category: Plays, Playscripts