Thomas Kyd's Mystery Play: Myth and Ritual in the Spanish Tragedy

by Frank R. Ardolino

One of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan period, The Spanish Tragedy has long been accepted as the first major example of the revenge tragedy genre which enjoyed a great vogue in Tudor and Stuart England. However, in this first full-length study in English of the play, the author offers an original analysis of its mystery subtext. He shows how Kyd defines the play as a mystery by analogies between the large play and three plays-within-the-play,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082040232X
• ISBN13: 9780820402321
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 189 Pages