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Article: The Influence of Spenser's Faerie Queene on Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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The Influence of Spenser's Faerie Queene on Kyd's Spanish Tragedy
Frank Ardolino
University of Hawaii
ardolino@hawaii.edu
Ardolino, Frank. "The Influence of Spenser's Faerie Queene on Kyd's Spanish Tragedy." Early Modern Literary Studies 7.3 (January, 2002): 4.1-70
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The Spanish Tragedy, one of the most popular plays of the Elizabethan theatre, was the first important revenge tragedy which initiated and influenced the genre of revenge tragedies in the next two decades, including Hamlet (Smith 129). As such, "It . . . exert[ed] a compulsive force--which ran to at least nine separate editions and innumerable partial ...