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THE SPANISH TRAGEDY IBD

BOOK JUNGLE
03 / 2007
9781594625480
Inglés

Sinopsis

The Spanish Tragedy, highly influential and popular in its time, established anew genre in English theatre - the revenge play or revenge tragedy. The plotof ''The Spanish Tragedy'' contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. This work was often referencedin works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including WilliamShakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. Many elements of The SpanishTragedy, such as the play-within-a-play appear in Shakespeare?s Hamlet. Thomas Kydis also frequently proposed as the author of the lost Ur-Hamlet play that was one of Shakespeare?sprimary sources for Hamlet)

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