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    The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Tragedy
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    The Spanish Tragedy

    Written by Thomas Kyd

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.

    Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.) (Summary by Wikipedia)

    Cast:
    Ghost of Andrea, a Spanish nobleman; Hangman: MARTIN GEESON
    Revenge: Availle
    KING OF SPAIN: Lars Rolander
    CYPRIAN DUKE OF CASTILE, his brother; ALEXANDRO, Portuguese Nobleman; BAZARDO, a Painter; Watchman 1; Citizen 1: Algy Pug
    LORENZO, the Duke's son: DublinGothic
    BELLIMPERIA, Lorenzo's sister; Isabella's Maid: JustineWalmsley
    VICEROY OF PORTUGAL: Jason Mills Nigel Boydell
    BALTHAZAR, his son: Jeff Schwab
    HIERONIMO, Marshal of Spain: Amy Gramour
    ISABELLA, his wife; Boy: Bev J. Stevens
    HORATIO, their son: Max Körlinge
    Spanish General; Deputy; Don Bazulto; Watchman 2; Citizen 2: Marty Kris
    Portuguese Ambassador: Lucy Perry
    VlLLUPPO, Portuguese Nobleman; Don Pedro; JACQUES, Hieronimo's servant; Watchman 3; Citizen 3: ToddHW
    PEDRINGANO, Bellimperia's servant: Liberty Stump
    CHRISTOPHIL, Bellimperia's custodian; Messenger: Carol Box
    Lorenzo's Page: ChyAnne Donnell
    SERBERINE, Balthazar's servant; Servant: Kristin Gjerløw
    PEDRO, Hieronimo's servant: Peter Makus
    Nobleman 1; Portingal 1: Ernst Pattynama
    Nobleman 2; Portingal 2: JohnFricker
    Narrator: Elizabeth Klett
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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