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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy.

The ghost of a murdered courtier is promised by Revenge that he will see his murderer killed by his mistress. The two ghostly figures sit down to watch the violent proceedings.

Thomas Kyd's play The Spanish Tragedy is credited with establishing a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy.

This edition of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series includes an introduction by Simon Trussler.



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'A murky world of royal skulduggery, hangings, knifings and delayed revenge, which is by no means remote from our own violent times'

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The Spanish Tragedy

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      Publisher: Nick Hern Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/06/1997
      ISBN13: 9781854593771, 978-1854593771
      ISBN10: 1854593773

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

      A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy.

      The ghost of a murdered courtier is promised by Revenge that he will see his murderer killed by his mistress. The two ghostly figures sit down to watch the violent proceedings.

      Thomas Kyd's play The Spanish Tragedy is credited with establishing a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy.

      This edition of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series includes an introduction by Simon Trussler.



      Trade Review

      'A murky world of royal skulduggery, hangings, knifings and delayed revenge, which is by no means remote from our own violent times'

      * Evening Standard *

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