Spanish tragedy. Kid T.

“Spanish tragedy” is the most famous work of the English playwright Thomas Kid (1558-1594), who is considered the author of the so-called “Hamlet”. Appearing around 1587, the “Spanish tragedy” became the most popular theater play in England at the turn of the XVI-XVII centuries and created the canon of the Elizabethan bloody tragedy of revenge. It was with this canon that W. Shakespeare entered into the polemic during the “war of theaters” (1599-1601), he tried to rethink him and transform him from the standpoint of the Christian worldview in his “Hamlet”.

Kid not only uses a fascinating The plot built on love and revenge, and not only encourages its viewer (and now the reader) to intensely monitor the painful moral choice of the protagonist of Jeronimo - between the law, divine and personal justice. The playwright relies on the traditions of the medieval theater (mystery, farce), the recitation of the Roman tragedy (Seneca), skillfully applies the reception of the “theater in the theater”, subsequently brilliantly used by Shakespeare.

In addition to the first executed and exhaustingly commented equal translation of “Spanish Tragedies ”, the book includes translations of“ additions ”(ed. 1602) to the“ Spanish tragedy ”, presumably composed by Ben Johnson (1573-1637), and the national ballad created at the end of the 16th century based on the play by T. Kida.

In the accompanying articles and comments “The Spanish Tragedy” and the work of Kid, the work of Kid is considered in their cultural and historical context, as well as the evolution of the genre of tragedy of revenge in the work of Shakespeare and his younger brothers by profession. The study studies the myst-ray composition of the “Spanish tragedy”, the biblical plots used by the KID in the subono of its actions (Calvary, the fall of Babylon) and contributed to its wide recognition