The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre by Oxford University

Nov 5, 200949:05Education

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 relig...

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