Verse tragedy · c. 1592
The Spanish Tragedy
Containing the lamentable end of Don Horatio and Bel-imperia, with the pitiful death of old Hieronimo
The ghost of the Spanish courtier Don Andrea, slain in battle, is led back from the underworld by Revenge to watch his killer Balthazar punished. Instead he sees Andrea's friend Horatio murdered in his father's arbour and Hieronimo, the Knight-Marshall of Spain, driven half mad by grief as he seeks justice from a corrupt court. Hieronimo at last stages a play before the court in which the real deaths are carried out.
Contents · 26 parts
- Persons of the Play14 lines
- Act I, Prologue92 lines
- Act I, Scene 1about 210 lines
- Act I, Scene 297 lines
- Act I, Scene 3about 200 lines
- Act II, Scene 1about 140 lines
- Act II, Scene 262 lines
- Act II, Scene 353 lines
- Act II, Scene 4about 170 lines
- Act III, Scene 1about 120 lines
- Act III, Scene 2about 130 lines
- Act III, Scene 357 lines
- Act III, Scene 499 lines
- Act III, Scene 518 lines
- Act III, Scene 6about 120 lines
- Act III, Scene 777 lines
- Act III, Scene 828 lines
- Act III, Scene 918 lines
- Act III, Scene 10about 130 lines
- Act III, Scene 1142 lines
- Act III, Scene 12about 120 lines
- Act III, Scene 13about 190 lines
- Act III, Scene 14about 230 lines
- Act IV, Scene 1about 210 lines
- Act IV, Scene 241 lines
- Act IV, Scene 3about 320 lines