The Spanish Tragedy Themes

The Spanish Tragedy opens with a dead guy looking for revenge while standing next to a character named Revenge. So yeah, you can see where Kyd is heading right from the start. You could say that th...

There's crazy all over the place in The Spanish Tragedy. In fact, madness is a staple in revenge tragedies. After the popularity of Kyd's exploration of madness and revenge, Shakespeare featured di...

The Spanish Tragedy wants to make past memories real. And by real we mean living, present, and in some cases even touchable. Memory is the great mover in the play. To make this point clear the play...

When we talk about society and class in The Spanish Tragedy, we mean the boundaries that exist between individuals based on social rank. In some ways, social rank in the 16th century is easy for us...