Quotes from bookThe Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. 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 contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy is often considered to be the first mature Elizabethan drama, a claim disputed with Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and has been parodied by many Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights, including Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
“Evil news fly faster still than good.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act I, sc. iii
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“Thus must we toil in other men's extremes,
That know not how to remedy our own.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act III, sc. vi
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“What outcries pluck me from my naked bed
And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act II, sc. v
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“For what's a play without a woman in it?”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act IV, sc. i
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“Where words prevail not, violence prevails;
But gold doth more than either of them both.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act II, sc. i
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss?”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act III, sc. vi
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
