by Thomas Kyd, J.R. Mulryne · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713667929
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«The Spanish Tragedy» is Thomas Kyd's Elizabethan tragedy, edited by J.R. Mulryne and published by Methuen Drama in paperback (138 pages, in English).
It is the first fully developed revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan theatre. Hieronimo, marshal of Spain during the war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice after the murder of his son and decides to take it into his own hands. The edition adds the 1602 scenes and analyses Elizabethan revenge, the Senecan features of the play and the Anglo-Spanish conflict of the 1580s.
The volume, published in 2003, corresponds to the second edition of the play within the New Mermaids series.
Study edition suitable for secondary school and university students, as well as for fans of classical English theatre.
Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
