Divine Justice in the Portuguese sub-plot in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
published by Tishreen University
in 2017
in
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
This paper is concerned with the theme of divine
justice in The Spanish Tragedy (1592) by Thomas Kyd
(1558-1594), a famous English Elizabethan dramatist. It
first defines the term "didactic", and then moves to
discuss the Portuguese playlet in The Spanish Tragedy
as a miniature play-within-the-play which reveals the
issue of divine judgment. This paper concludes by
asserting that this play is a tragedy of divine justice and
punishment.
References used
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. London, New Mermaids, 1592
Beard, Thomas. The Theater of God’s Judgments. London: Reprints of Renaissance Literary Works, 1990