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.
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