What is The Spanish Tragedy?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox play | name = The Spanish Tragedy | image = Kyd, Spanish Tragedy.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = Title page of the 1615 edition | writer = [[Thomas Kyd]] | chorus = | characters = Revenge<br />Ghost of Andrea<br />King of Spain, etc. | mute = | setting = [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] during the [[Renaissance]] | premiere = 1580s | place = [[London, England]] | orig_lang = English | series = | subject = Revenge | genre = [[Tragedy]] | web = | playbill = | ibdb_id = | iobdb_id = | theatricalia_id = }} '''''The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again''''' is a [[play (theatre)|play]] by [[Thomas Kyd]]. It is a [[tragedy]]. The exact date the play was written is uncertain. It was probably written in the 1580s. [[Ben Jonson]] referred to the play in ''[[ Bartholomew Fair]]''. This suggests that ''The Spanish Tragedy'' was staged between 1584 and 1589. A date earlier than 1588 is very likely. The play is about the horrific murders of the heirs to the Spanish throne. It had great influence on Elizabethan [[playwright]]s. Shakespeare may have adopted elements of the play for ''[[Hamlet]]''. ==Other websites== * [http://www.elizabethanauthors.org/span1.htm Complete play] {{William Shakespeare|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanish Tragedy}}{{lit-stub}} [[Category:English plays]] [[Category:1580s plays]]