Highly influential, THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE was also one of the great popular sensations of the Elizabethan stage. Kyd invented the genre of the revenge tragedy, whose ghosts baying for blood, violent extremism and powerful rhetoric eventually led toHamlet. His 'Machiavellian' villain Lorenzo decisively influenced characters like Iago.
- ISBN10 6611835458
- ISBN13 9786611835453
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 25 June 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint BiblioLife
- Format eBook
- Pages 120
- Language English