| The Spanish Tragedy |
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Title page of the 1615 edition
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| Written by |
Thomas Kyd |
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| Characters |
Revenge
Ghost of Andrea
King of Spain, etc. |
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| Date of premiere |
1580s |
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| Place of premiere |
London, England |
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| Original language |
English |
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| Subject |
Revenge |
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| Genre |
Tragedy |
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| Setting |
Spain and Portugal during the Renaissance |
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The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is a play by Thomas Kyd. It is a tragedy. The exact date the play was written is uncertain. It was probably written in the 1580s.
Ben Jonson referred to the play in Bartholomew Fair. This suggests that The Spanish Tragedy was staged between 1584 and 1589. A date earlier than 1588 is very likely.
The play is about the horrific murders of the heirs to the Spanish throne. It had great influence on Elizabethan playwrights. Shakespeare may have adopted elements of the play for Hamlet.
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- Problem plays
- Late romances
- Characters
- Chronology
- Performances
- Settings
- Scenes
- Quarto publications
- First Folio
- Second Folio
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- Shakespeare's sonnets
- A Lover's Complaint
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Venus and Adonis
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| Plays |
- Arden of Faversham
- The Birth of Merlin
- Cardenio*Template:†
- Double Falsehood
- Edmund Ironside
- Fair Em
- Locrine
- The London Prodigal
- Love's Labour's WonTemplate:†
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton
- Mucedorus
- The Puritan
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Sejanus His Fall
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Sir Thomas More*
- The Spanish Tragedy
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- Thomas of Woodstock
- Vortigern and Rowena
- A Yorkshire Tragedy
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| Poems |
- The Passionate Pilgrim
- To the Queen
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- Attribution studies
- Authorship question
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- Screen adaptations
- Titles of works taken from Shakespeare
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- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Shakespeare's Globe (replica)
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| Family |
- Anne Hathaway (wife)
- Susanna Hall (daughter)
- Hamnet Shakespeare (son)
- Judith Quiney (daughter)
- Elizabeth Barnard (granddaughter)
- John Shakespeare (father)
- Mary Arden (mother)
- Gilbert Shakespeare (brother)
- Joan Shakespeare (sister)
- Edmund Shakespeare (brother)
- Richard Shakespeare (grandfather)
- John Hall (son-in-law)
- Thomas Quiney (son-in-law)
- Thomas Nash (grandson-in-law)
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- * Shakespeare and other authors
- Template:† Lost
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Title page of the 1615 edition
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