The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy

Author: Thomas Kyd

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-27

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1472573854

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The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murdered for courting Bel-Imperia, the Duke of Castile's daughter, and decides to take justice into his own hands... This new student edition has been freshly revised by Professor Andrew Gurr to incorporate the latest stage history and critical interpretations of the play. It also appends the scenes that were added in 1602, discusses Elizabethan attitudes to revenge, the Senecan features of the play and the significance of the Anglo-Spanish conflict in the 1580s.

The Routledge History of Literature in English
The Routledge History of Literature in English

Author: Ronald Carter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9780415243179

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This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy
Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

Author: Joseph Allen Bryant

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780813130958

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In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a.

The Facts about Shakespeare
The Facts about Shakespeare

Author: William Allan Thorndike, Ashley Horace Neilson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 3732630889

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Reproduction of the original.