{"product_id":"the-spanish-tragedy","title":"Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy [2003] paperback","description":"The first fully-fledged example of 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. In a scene replete with  meta-theatrical implications, Hieronimo and Bel-Imperia stage a playlet  with Portuguese and Spanish nobles as actors, stabbing them with real  'fake' daggers before they kill themselves. This edition, which 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.","brand":"Kyd, Thomas \u0026 Mulryne, Professor J. R.","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47925187084627,"sku":"XG80713667929","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kyd-thomas-mulryne-professor-j-r-the-spanish-tragedy-xg80713667929-55238509691219.jpg?v=1712083817","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-spanish-tragedy","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}