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: -Revenge tragedies were extremely popular during the 1580s. This is one of the most influential examples of the genre, which later inspired Shakespeare when he was writing Hamlet. The Spanish Tragedie was written by Thomas Kyd, probably between 1582 and 1592.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Spanish Tragedy, written by Thomas Kyd is a revenge play that was highly popular during the Elizabethan era. It is popular because it followed Senecan model of bloodshed and bloody murdering scenes. The play also contains an element of play within a play which was set up as a revenge on the murderers.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Thomas Kyd 1558-1594 Kyd is the author of The Spanish Tragedy, the revenge tragedy that sparked the hugely popular trend for the theme of revenge in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. But even more important in the history of English drama is what is thought to be a play he wrote called Ur-Hamlet.