{"id":8366,"date":"2020-01-10T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2020-01-13T04:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T04:59:49","slug":"the-spanish-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/the-spanish-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Spanish Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cThe less I speak, the more I meditate.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>About The Author<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Thomas Kyd\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(6 November 1558 \u2013 15 August 1594) was an English dramatist and a famous English playwright. He was one of the most important figures in the development of drama, plays and middle and final climaxes. He revealed a sense of the tragic situation in his novel \u201cThe Spanish Tragedy\u201d. In 1593 he got arrested and tortured because he was the suspect of treasonable activity. He contributed a lot to Elizabethan drama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>About The Novel<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of the story, the ghost of Spanish courtier Dan Andrea tells his story. After Andrea died in the battle against Portugal, he became a ghost and tried to find a way to send back on Earth. A character named Revenge, his guide, tells him that he has been sent back to witness an incident related to his lover. The story contains very serious and tragic incidents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre:\u00a0\u00a0Tragedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tone:\u00a0Ironic, Serious, and Tragic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Type:\u00a0Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of Publication:\u00a01592<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<h2><b>Main Characters<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Hieronimo:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protagonist of the story<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Bel-Imperia:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main female character<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lorenzo:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of Horatio\u2019s murderers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Balthazar:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prince of Portugal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Horatio:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Son of Hieronimo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ghost of Andrea:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First character in the play<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Revenge:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrea\u2019s companion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Isabella:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suffering wife of Hieronimo<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Themes<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Death wish- There are nine deaths in the novel, three of them are suicide<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revenge- Most of the characters act out because of the feeling of revenge<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Betrayal- Betrayal is the most important emotion in play. Some of them betray with a strong reason, but some characters don\u2019t have a particular reason<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice\/Injustice-The whole play revolves around the questions of justice and injustice<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Some Interesting Facts about the Novel<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book is written to show\u00a0 Spain as an evil empire that was the archrival of England<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet has many themes like The Spanish Tragedy, which makes scholars believe that the story inspires Shakespeare<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of some copyright dispute, only one copy of the first edition has survived<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exact year of the writing of The Spanish Tragedy is still unknown.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T.S. 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