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ISBN: 9780140445312 - Two Tudor Tragedies
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Two Tudor Tragedies

Gorboduc, AND Spanish Tragedy

Thomas Sackville, Thomas Norton, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Kydd
William Tydeman

ISBN: 9780140445312
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Reissue


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This one-volume edition includes two pre-Shakespearean tragedies in English - "Gorboduc" (1561), which claims to be the earliest English tragedy, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville and "The Spanish Tragedy", the central precusor to "Hamlet".

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This one-volume edition of the two most influential pre-Shakespearean tragedies in English. "Gorboduc" (1561) has claims to be the earliest English tragedy and was written jointly by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. "The Spanish Tragedy" is of extraordinary interest, not only in its own right, but as as the central precusor to "Hamlet".
 
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