State violence and last sentences in Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy
At a time when the dying speeches of those condemned on the public scaffold were skilfully organised so as to reinforce the king’s power, Thomas Kyd’s most famous play, The Spanish Tragedy, is outstanding for the freedom with which it stages execution scenes and allows characters condemned to death...
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| में प्रकाशित: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/asf, |
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| स्वरूप: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| भाषा: | Anglais |
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Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus
2022
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| सारांश: | At a time when the dying speeches of those condemned on the public scaffold were skilfully organised so as to reinforce the king’s power, Thomas Kyd’s most famous play, The Spanish Tragedy, is outstanding for the freedom with which it stages execution scenes and allows characters condemned to death to deliver their last speeches. Their words indicate abusive power, excessive violence and, therefore, an unjust justice enforced in the name of the monarch. The rhetoric of the condemned thus speaks the truth while the last dying speech takes on various forms, whether oral, written, or even posthumous, so as to create dramatic twists and, more significantly, allow the revenge which determines the play’s genre to take place. |
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