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The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age.

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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Emma Smith
Keywords
jacobean
language
theatre
elizabethan
renaissance
#greatwriters
english
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 05/11/2009
Duration: 00:49:05

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