“The Spanish Tragedy” is over 400 years old, but Federman promises that its action-driven plot and straightforward language make the play more accessible than Shakespeare’s.

Written by Thomas Kyd sometime in the late 16th century, "The Spanish Tragedy" follows several murders and includes the personification of Revenge as one of its main characters. When Don Andrea, a ...

The Spanish Tragedy: Revenge tragedy. By Thomas Kyd. Directed by Lesley Schisgall Currier. Through Aug. 11. $20-$37.50. Marin Shakespeare Company. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, Dominican University ...

Using J. L. Austin's theory of performative language, which stands in peculiar relationship to the literary or the dramatic, this paper traces how language and action function together in specific ...

“The Spanish Tragedy,” being staged at the New College Theatre (NCT) through October 30 and directed by Meryl H. Federman ’11, is the Hyperion Shakespeare Company’s latest offering.

For a play that changed the theatrical landscape forever, The Spanish Tragedy is rarely performed in the twenty-first century. Thomas Kyd’s gory masterpiece is a meditation on revenge, and inspired ...

Capsule: This “Tragedy” is a capable, credible take on a Shakespearean precursor that doesn’t quite become something more. Originally Published: March 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM CDT ...

The dialectic conflict between love and strife provides the structural basis of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. The opposition, alternation, and interaction between the two forces in their various ...

For a play that changed the theatrical landscape forever, The Spanish Tragedy is rarely performed in the twenty-first century. Thomas Kyd’s gory masterpiece is a meditation on revenge, and inspired ...