New material under the last two bold headings! The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Kyd This play gets mentioned in the Introductions to numerous later plays because it is considered the first Revenge Tragedy of the era's drama - and, let's face it, the Elisabethan-Jacobean era was the Golden Age of Engl...
3.5 stars, read for university.
4.5 Stars.***Read For School***
This has a lot of interesting history of the period, as well as an introduction to the different genres and writers.Not something I would have read right now if I didn't have to read it for class, however, the Norton Anthologies never disappoint me.