The Spanish Tragedy Study Guide consists of approx. 69 pages of summaries and analysis on The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd. Browse the literature study guide below:
This play is the story of the intense grief, quest for revenge, and eventual insanity of Hieronimo, whose son Horatio is murdered by an ambitious courtier. The play is an example of a medieval genre called the revenge tragedy, in which the naked, murderous ambitions of its central characters are moralistically avenged. The central theme of this play, as was the case with all such tragedies, is the inevitability and rightness of justice. (read more)
