The play contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. The play is about two thirds the length of the original, and about 95% of the words are Kyd's.The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 15. I've smoothed out and simplified several ambiguities.īut I've retained the blank verse and recognizable antique words. I've changed the order of several scenes in order to place the interval roughly in the middle of the play.ĥ. I've removed the two scenes located in Portugal and the Portuguese sub-plot involving Alexandro and Villuppo.Ĥ. I've removed or discretely translated all the Latin and minimized the extensive references to classical mythology.ģ. I've modernized the spelling and changed words and usages unfamiliar to the modern play-goer. This version differs in the following ways from the first edition of 1592:ġ. My object in preparing this modern version of The Spanish Tragedy was to make an understandable and enjoyable version of the play while retaining an authentic Elizabethan feeling and without sacrificing too much of Kyd's exuberant style. Both plays begin with a ghost and include a climactic play-within-a-play and a tragic hero who can't make up his mind. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd was the first of the great Elizabethan revenge tragedies and was a major influence on Shakespeare when he wrote Hamlet fifteen years later.
This new version retains the blank verse, major plot line, and Elizabethan atmosphere, but makes the play easily understandable to modern audiences and readers. A shortened version of Thomas Kyd's 1587 drama The Spanish Tragedy.
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