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"Violence Prevails": Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy

2023/8/22
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Oooh, you're in for a bloody one today, dear listener!  Perhaps the most popular revenge tragedy in the 16th-century: Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.  Wildly infamous, wildly influential, wildly excessive -- just wild!  It inaugurates the fashion for revenge tragedy that will dominate theater for the next decades, and paves the way for Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet.

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