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The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

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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: 05 November 2009
Contributors:
Emma Smith
In Collection(s): Shakespeare’s Contemporary dramatists, Thomas Kyd
Keywords:
english, language, jacobean, elizabethan, theatre, renaissance, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd by Emma Smith at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/spanish-tragedy-thomas-kyd. Published on 05 November 2009. Accessed on 04 November 2025.

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