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The Spanish Tragedy

by Thomas Kyd (1558 - 1594)

The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.
Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.) (Summary by Wikipedia)

Cast:

Ghost of Andrea, a Spanish nobleman - Martin Geeson
Revenge- Availle
KING OF SPAIN - Lars Rolander
CYPRIAN DUKE OF CASTILE, his brother - Algy Pug
LORENZO, the Duke's son - DublinGothic
BELLIMPERIA, Lorenzo's sister; Isabella's maid - Justine Walmsley
VICEROY OF PORTUGAL - Nigel Boydell
BALTHAZAR, his son - Jeff Schwab
HIERONIMO, Marshal of Spain - Amy Gramour
ISABELLA, his wife - Bev J. Stevens
HORATIO, their son - Max Körlinge
ALEXANDRO Portuguese Nobleman - Algy Pug
VlLLUPPO, Portuguese Nobleman - ToddHW
Spanish General; Deputy; Don Bazulto - Marty Kris
Portuguese Ambassador - Lucy Perry
BAZARDO a Painter- Algy Pug
Don Pedro - ToddHW
Hangman - Martin Geeson
PEDRINGANO, Bellimperia's servant - Liberty Stump
CHRISTOPHIL, Bellimperia's custodian; Messenger - Carol Box
Lorenzo's Page - ChyAnne Donnell
SERBERINE, Balthazar's servant; Servant - Kristingj
PEDRO, Hieronimo's servant- Peter Makus
JACQUES, Hieronimo's servant - ToddHW
Nobleman 1; Portingal 1 - Ernst Pattynama
Nobleman 2; Portingal 2 - John Fricker
Watchman 1; Citizen 1 - Algy Pug
Watchman 2; Citizen 2 - Marty Kris
Watchman 3; Citizen 3 - ToddHW
Narrator - Elizabeth Klett

Audio edited by Algy Pug


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