ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The play was first entered in the Stationers’ Register on 6th October 1592, to Abel Jeffes, under the title The Spanish Tragedie of Don Horation and Bellmipera.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hieronimo and his wife Isabella find the body of their son hanged and stabbed, and Isabella is driven mad.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hieronimo is one of the principal characters in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy. He is the knight marshal of Spain and the father of Horatio. In the onset of the play he is a dedicated servant to the King of Spain.

Detailed explanation-5: -Madness. Madness becomes manifested in two distinct persons in the play: Hieronimo and Isabella. The first case of madness eventually leads to bloody revenge, while the second leads to suicide.