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Hieronimo

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Hieronimo
Spanish general goes mad on seeing the body of his murdered son. [Br. Drama: The Spanish Tragedy in Magill II, 990]
See : Madness

Hieronimo
stages a play that gives him the opportunity to kill his son’s murderers. [Br. Drama: The Spanish Tragedy in Magill II, 990]
See : Vengeance


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Although he admits such topoi may be tiresome to many ("oro, perlas y corales, pareciendoles que seria la estatua de Nabucodonosor" [585]), he cannot refrain from listing the many examples from antique as well as Renaissance poets: Cornelio Galla, Virgil, Fausto Sabeo, Mantuano, Arias Montano, Hieronimo Vidas, Poliziano, Horace, Pontano, Boethius, Statius, Garcilaso.
After his son has been murdered, Hieronimo despairs of ever having the case heard, and opts for revenge.
Even The Spanish Tragedy (first printed 1592) represents anxieties about social mobility as Horatio, son of legal official Hieronimo, becomes embroiled in the marital and dynastic ambitions of Spain and Portugal.
 
 
 
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