The Spanish Tragedie. Thomas Kyd

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      Title: The Spanish Tragedie

      by Thomas Kyd

      ISBN 978-3-7429-5870-9

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      THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE

      1587

      By Thomas Kyd

      Containing the lamentable end of DON HORATIO, and BEL-IMPERIA:

       with the pittiful death of olde HIERONIMO.

       Newly corrected and amended of such grosse faults as passed in the first impression.

      At London

      Printed by Edward Allde, for

      Edward White

      TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

      [Edited by John Matthews Manly, 1897. This electronic text is based on the earliest extant edition, which is undated but was printed before 1618. Some bracketed text is verbatim from Manly's edition. However, some bracketed text is taken from alternate editions which Manly originally supplied in footnotes. As the editor of this electronic edition, I have sometimes chosen the clearer of two alternatives, sacrificing the specificity of Manly's footnoted edition in favor of a text that has a better chance of being read and understood by a modern audience. I have also excluded the insertions supposed to have been written by Ben Johnson, as well as the additional dialogue from III.xiii and IV.iii. Some alternate dialogue has been included as has been labeled as such.]

      CONTENTS

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

       ACTVS PRIMVS.

       [Prologue]

       [ACT I. SCENE 2.]

       [ACT I. SCENE 3.]

       ACTUS SECUNDUS.

       [ACT II. SCENE 1.]

       [ACT II. SCENE 2.]

       [ACT II. SCENE 3.]

       [ACT II. SCENE 4.]

       ACTUS TERTIUS.

       [ACT III. SCENE 1.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 2.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 3.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 4.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 5.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 6.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 7.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 8.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 9.]

       [ACT III. Scene 10.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 11.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 12.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 13.]

       [ACT III. SCENE 14.]

       ACTUS QUARTUS.

       [ACT IV. SCENE 1.]

       [ACT IV. SCENE 2.]

       [ACT IV. SCENE 3.]

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

      GHOST OF ANDREA |

       REVENGE | the Chorus.

       KING OF SPAIN.

       VICEROY OF PORTUGAL.

       DON CIPRIAN, duke of Castile.

       HIERONIMO, knight-marshall of Spain.

       BALTHAZAR, the Viceroy's son.

       LORENZO, Don Ciprian's son [and Bel-imperia's brother].

       HORATIO, Hieronimo's son.

       ALEXANDRO |

       VILLUPPO | lords of Portual.

       PEDRINGANO, servant of Bel-imperia.

       SERBERINE, servant of Balthazar.

       Spanish General, Portuguese Embassador, Old Man, Painter Page,

       Hangman, Citizens, Soldiers, Attendants, &c.

       BEL-IMPERIA, Lorenzo's sister.

       ISABELLA, Hieronimo's wife.

       PAGE.

       MESSENGER.

       CHRISTOPHEL.

       SERVANT.

       SENEX (DON BAZULTO).

       CITIZENS.

SCENE: Spain; and Portugal. ACTVS PRIMVS.

[Prologue]

      Enter the GHOAST OF ANDREA, and with him REUENGE.

       GHOAST. When this eternall substance of my soule

       Did liue imprisond in my wanton flesh,

       Ech in their function seruing others need,

       I was a courtier in the Spanish court:

       My name was Don Andrea; my discent,

       Though not ignoble, yet inferiour far

       To gratious fortunes of my tender youth,

       For there, in prime and pride of all my yeeres,

       By duteous seruice and deseruing loue,