in The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again) — Kyd, Thomas
Metadata
Play
The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again)
Author
Kyd, Thomas
Year (catalogued)
1592
First performance
1587
Decade
1590s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Unknown
Speech prefix(es)
Isa.
Words
257
Characters
1367
Typicality
0.41 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A04942
BritDrama no.
783
Cluster
Cluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
My husbands absence makes my heart to throb, Hieronimo. What world of grief, my son Horatio? Oh where the author of this end es woe. Then is he gone? and is my son gone too? Ogush out tears, fountains and louds of tears, Blow sighs and raise and everlasting storm. For outrage fits our cursed were chednes. And isle close up the glasses of his sighed, For once these eyes were only my delight, The heavens are joust, murder cannot be hid, Time is the author both of truth and right. And time will bring this treachery to light. So that you say this herb will purge the eye And this the head, ah but none of them will purge the heart: No, the no medicine left for my disease, Nor any physic to recure the dead: Horatio, Oh where Horatio. Why did I not give you gowns and goodly things, Bought you a whistle and a whipstalk too To be revenged on their villainies. My soul, poor soul thou talks of things Thou knowest not what, my soul hath silver wings, That mounts me up unto the highest heavens, To heaven, I there sits my Hor tio, Backed with a troup offiery Cherubins, Dancing about his newly healed wounds Singing sweet hymns and chanting heavenly notes, Rare hermony to greet his innocence, That died, I died a mirror in our days. But say, where shall I find, the men, the murderers, That flew Horatio, whither shall I run, To find them out, that murdered my Son.
Plot summary
Plot — The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again)
Don Andrea) Beleimiperia’s secret lover, was separated from her by the war with Portugal and killed in battle by Baltazar Now the powers of hell have promised him vengeance, and he and R@Véfige sit down to watch it worked out in the play. In the course of the action Andrea expresses mounting impatience, while Revenge makes him wait, sleeps, and finally takes control of the action. Spain wins the war and Portugal agrees to pay tribute. Balthazar has been taken prisoner, and is committed to DGFSHZO!s custody. BElAImperia is wooed by Balthazar, and the King plans to settle the succession on their issue, thereby uniting Spain and Portugal. But Bel-Imperia cannot accept her dead love's killer, and opts for MGFatiG instead. Lorenzo learns of this by suborning her servant Pédfingafio, who then assists him and Balthazar in murdering MOratio! Miéroninie finds his son’s body hanging in his arbour and swears revenge, but his wife counsels patience while heaven puts matters right. In Portugal, Willipps falsely accuses AUSXandrS of murdering Balthazar in battle. At the last moment Alexandro is saved from burning at the stake by the arrival of the Ambassador from Spain with news that Balthazar is alive. Alexandro is released and Wiliippo condemned. Béleimpera is imprisoned by DGFeHZ6) but writes Hieronimo a letter in her own blood. Fearing a trap, Hieronimo investigates, but his suspicions alert Lorenzo. PR@HigaHG is persuaded to murder his accomplice]/Sérbenine] on promise of a pardon; but the box supposedly containing it is empty, and Pedritigane’s confident jesting on the gallows ends with his execution. An incriminating letter found on his body confirms the guilt of Lorenzo and Balthazar, but HigfonimiG is so far unhinged by grief that Lorenzo finds it easy to prevent him informing the King; his mental state also inhibits him from the efficient discharge of his judicial responsibilities. ISB@lla also goes mad and cuts down the arbour before killing herself, but Hieronimo rejects suicide, preferring revenge. Beleimperia is now to marry Balthazar, and the Micero6yMicomes from Portugal. for the ceremony. HieronimiG organizes his revenge under the pretext of the entertainment: a tragedy of SHISHA and PERSeda} in which he and Bel-Imperia kill Lorenzo and Balthazar ===== PAGE 372 ===== in earnest. Bél@lmipéria kills herself, and MieronimG bites out his tongue to avoid interrogation, then stabs the Duke of @aStilé and himself. DOnlNAKGEEd is avenged, and Revenge promises…