The Spanish Tragedie: The Spanish Tragedie with the First Part of Jeronimo - Softcover

Smith, Emma; Kyd, Thomas

 
9780140436464: The Spanish Tragedie: The Spanish Tragedie with the First Part of Jeronimo

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Highly influential, THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE was also one of the great popular sensations of the Elizabethan stage. Kyd invented the genre of the revenge tragedy, whose ghosts baying for blood, violent extremism and powerful rhetoric eventually led toHamlet. His 'Machiavellian' villain Lorenzo decisively influenced characters like Iago.

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Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) is associated with a leading theatrical company, the Queen's Men. In 1593 both Kyd and Marlowe were arrested, and Kyd was imprisoned and tortured - his career never recovered.
Emma Smith is Fellow of All Souls College, Oxfordand is currently working on a history of Shakespeare's Henry V.

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