The Spanish Tragedy

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. Edited by Philip Edwards. The Revels Plays. Manchester Manchester University Press, 1977. 

At the outset of The Spanish Tragedy, Hieronimo s sense of self emerges through his service to the king. Consider the first exchange of these two characters ... 

Thomas Kyd, The Tragedy ofSolimanand Perseda (London, i592), sig. Azv. As Lukas Erne points out, there is no satisfactory modern edition. See Beyond The Spanish Tragedy A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (Manchester University Press, 2001), 157. 

Evidence for the currency of this line is provided in Emma Smith, Hieron-imo s Afterlives , in The Spanish Tragedie (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1998), 148-9. 

Philip Edwards (ed.), The Spanish Tragedy (Manchester University Press, 1959), 123, 125. Subsequent references are in the text. 

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