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Title: The Spanish Tragedie

Author: Thomas Kyd

Release Date: July, 2004 [EBook #6043]
Posting Date: June 4, 2009

Language: English

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THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE

1587

By Thomas Kyd

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.]

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

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.

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