Spanish Tragedy
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Ardolino, Frank R. "The Hangman's Noose and the Empty Box: Ky's use of dramatic and mythological sources in The Spanish Tragedy." RQ. 30 (1977), 334–340
Bercovitch, Sacvan. "Love and Strife in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy," SEL. 9 (1969), 215–229
Bowers, Fredson. Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940.
Edwards, Philip. Thomas Kyd and Early Elizabethan Tragedy. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1966.
Hunter, G.K. "Ironies of Justice in The Spanish Tragedy," Renaissance Drama, 8 (1965), 89–104.
Johnson, S.F. "The Spanish Tragedy or Babylon Revisited," in Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama in Honour of Hardin Craig. ed. Richard Hosley London, 1963), 23–36.
Kay, Carol McGinnis. "Deception through Words: a reading of The Spanish Tragedy." SP. 74 (1977), 20–38.
Rozett, Martha Tuck. The Doctrine of Election and the Emergence of Elizabethan Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
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