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In a letter dated 15 January 1579, Bernadino de Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador in London, writes to Gabriel de Zayas about a series of state is

...in the most popular surviving plays from Strange's repertory: Kyd's <i>The Spanish Tragedy</i>, Marlowe’s <i>Doctor Faustus</i> and <i>The Jew of Malta</i>,

...text evidently included Astrea’s two suitors, the subplot of the abducted Spanish princess and the Sultan, and gave the name “Runcifax” to the magician (

...rtextual tradition" of plays about madness in the 1590s, along with ''The Spanish Tragedy'', ''Orlando Furioso'', the ''Ur-Hamlet'' and ''Antonio's Revenge'

...s shorthand for 1453 it featured in a good number of plays, of which ''The Spanish Tragedy'', the ''Tamburlaine'' plays, and ''Othello'' are the best known. C

...ana (Marianas) Islands in the Pacific were known as the Ladrones, from the Spanish ''Islas de los Ladrones'', Islands of Thieves.

...nce Nightingale. ''Boccaccio and His Imitators in German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian Literature''. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1910. [http://archive.o

...eenstreet). Torismundo is also a character in the sprawling multi-authored Spanish romance ''Espejo de principes y cavalleros'', the three parts of which were

...he siege of Turnhout with all realism." (322) "Turnhout was taken from the Spanish by Count Maurice of Nassau, with the help of an English contingent, on 24 J

...ery many: and how she was discouered, and condemned. The second edition in Spanish augmented by the author himselfe, M. Cyprian Valera, and translated into En

...ints out, "was substantial, suggesting either that the additions [to ''The Spanish Tragedy''] were extensive or that Jonson's play on King Richard III was nea

...stol before him, affects the quotation of playhouse rodomontade from ''The Spanish Tragedy'' onwards. Having severed his bonds with his master, Touchstone, he

...oment were the growing danger of a new assault upon England from a revived Spanish armada, and the potential instability at home caused by the mounting rivalr ...ng the summer of 1597 when the country was unprecedentedly vulnerable to a Spanish attack. She proposes that what John Chamberlain describes on June 11 as "a

...icions of treason. Louis XIII journeyed that year to Bordeaux to meet his Spanish consort, leaving the gates of Paris carefully guarded in his absence. When

...adies, likewise dressed with great pomp. And so, in their ranks, they rode Spanish-style through the whole length of the city. There the people had gathered,

...lands Ioy'' (STC 24636.3), celebrates the defeat of Irish rebels and their Spanish allies under Don Juan de Aguila by Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy—the sam

...aining the merry skirmish that was betweene her and Sir James of Castile a Spanish Knight, and what was the end of their combat.