![]() Their leader, Balthazar, killed Don Andrea, a Spanish officer, and Balthazar is then captured by the Spanish army. Kid” and the style of The Spanish Tragedy matches Kyd’s other extant play, Cornelia (1593).īefore the play begins, the Viceroy of Portugal rebelled against Spanish rule and the Portuguese were defeated in a battle. Thomas Heywood, in An Apology for Actors (1612), attributed The Spanish Tragedy to “M. All of the early editions of the play are anonymous, despite Kyd being alive for the 1592 (and possibly the 1594) edition. The Spanish Tragedy entered the Stationer’s Register in 1592 and quarto one was printed in the same year. It’s also one of the earliest English revenge tragedies. It is a difficult play to date and scholars usually give a date range between 15 for the play’s composition. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that one of my favourite early modern tragedies was Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and I thought I’d do a whole post about it today. ![]()
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