The Spanish tragedy

About this book

A revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. Contains the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, which became popular motifs in plays that followed.

Subjects

• british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
• drama
• drama (dramatic works by one author)
• early modern and elizabethan
• english drama
• english drama (tragedy)
• ghost plays
• nobility
• revenge
• spanish drama
• spanish literature
• spanish tragedy (kyd, thomas)
• theater