The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age.
Date Published: 5 November 2009
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Contributors: Emma Smith
In Collection(s): Thomas Kyd, Shakespeare’s Contemporary dramatists
Keywords: #greatwriters, renaissance, theatre, elizabethan, jacobean, language, english
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