This is the first book in more than thirty years on the playwright who is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, The Sp

The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) o

Reproduction of the original: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early moder