The Question and Answer section for The Spanish Tragedy is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The events that brought the senex to Hieronimo were a stark reminder of Horatio's death, and his own grief. Thus, he gathers the senex to him, almost symbolically, and seeing his grief in the old man. The senex's tragedy is poignantly but...
I agree that the King's actions were responsible for numerous deaths. Had he not required his daughter to marry a man she didn't love, she might not have run away with Horatio, and all of the deaths that subsequently occurred might never have...
Revenge Tragedy is a style of drama, popular in England during the late 16th and 17th centuries, in which the basic plot was a quest for vengeance and which typically featured scenes of carnage and mutilation. If you "google" the term, you will...
