The Spanish Tragedy; or Hieronimo is Mad Again (Annotated)

by Thomas Kyd

Overview

The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its story contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.
This edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents. This edition has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, performance, publication, influences, allusions, plot, themes, structure, and biographical information.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151204699
Publisher:	Bronson Tweed Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	183 KB

About the Author

Thomas Kyd (baptized 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an European playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins (an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors (1612). A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's, which is now known as the Ur-Hamlet.