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* GenreTurningPoint: This play paved the way for for Elizabethan and Jacobean authors of drama and tragedy such as Creator/ChristopherMarlowe and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Kyd introduced the classic revenge plot, FeudingFamilies in fancy exotic settings, and most importantly the use of iambic pentameter and blank verse to tell a tragedy. The English, rather than feeling like they were playing second fiddle to the tragedies of Spain and Italy, could then have a homegrown version in colloquial language, and this marked the start of the GoldenAge of English Literature.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This play paved the way for for Elizabethan and Jacobean authors of drama and tragedy such as Creator/ChristopherMarlowe and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Kyd introduced the classic revenge plot, FeudingFamilies in fancy exotic settings, and most importantly the use of iambic pentameter and blank verse to tell a tragedy. The English, rather than feeling like they were playing second fiddle to the tragedies of Spain and Italy, could then have a homegrown version in colloquial language, and this marked the start of the GoldenAge Golden Age of English Literature.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Numerous important elements of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', such as the ghost calling for revenge, and the use of a play-within-a-play to trap the villains, were inspired by this play.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Numerous important elements of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', such as the ghost calling for revenge, and the use of a play-within-a-play to trap the villains, were inspired by this play. For what it's worth, both works include a guy named Horatio too.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Due to Bel-imperia's aside confession that her initiation of a relationship with Horatio is motivated by her desire to spite Balthazar, it is ambiguous to what extent she ''genuinely'' loves Horatio, and to what extent she is just using him as a tool for her vengeance.
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* DesignatedVillain: The Duke of Castile, who is stabbed by Hieronimo and condemned to eternal punishment along with the villains. Yet he is not in league with them, and actually objects to Lorenzo's obstruction of Hieronimo's attempts to see the king. The worst thing he does is try to arrange the marriage of his daughter Bel-imperia to Balthazar, whom he likely does not know is a villain.
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* DesignatedVillain: The Duke of Castile, who is stabbed by Hieronimo and condemned to eternal punishment along with the villains. Yet he is he's not in league with them, them and actually objects seems to have pretty good intentions, especially when he tries to investigate his son Lorenzo's dishonest obstruction of Hieronimo's attempts to see the king. The His worst thing he does action is to try to arrange the marriage of his daughter Bel-imperia to Balthazar, whom he likely does not know is a villain.
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* MoralEventHorizon: The brutal murder of Horatio in Hieronimo's garden is this for Lorenzo, and possibly the other conspirators too.
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* DesignatedVillain: The Duke of Castile, who is stabbed by Hieronimo and condemned to eternal punishment along with the villains. Yet he is not in league with them, and actually objects to Lorenzo's obstruction of Hieronimo's attempts to see the king. The worst thing he does is support the marriage of his daughter Bel-imperia to Balthazar, whom he likely does not know is a villain.
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* DesignatedVillain: The Duke of Castile, who is stabbed by Hieronimo and condemned to eternal punishment along with the villains. Yet he is not in league with them, and actually objects to Lorenzo's obstruction of Hieronimo's attempts to see the king. The worst thing he does is support try to arrange the marriage of his daughter Bel-imperia to Balthazar, whom he likely does not know is a villain.
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* DesignatedVillain: The Duke of Castile, who is stabbed by Hieronimo and condemned to eternal punishment along with the villains. Yet he is not in league with them, and actually objects to Lorenzo's obstruction of Hieronimo's attempts to see the king. The worst thing he does is support the marriage of his daughter Bel-imperia to Balthazar, whom he likely does not know is a villain.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This play paved the way for for Elizabethan and Jacobean authors of drama and tragedy such as Creator/ChristopherMarlowe and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Kyd introduced the classic revenge plot, FeudingFamilies in fancy exotic settings, and most importantly the use of iambic pentameter and blank verse to tell a tragedy. The English, rather than feeling like they were playing second fiddle to the tragedies of Spain and Italy, could then have a homegrown version in colloquial language, and this marked the start of the GoldenAge of English Literature.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This play paved the way for for Elizabethan and Jacobean authors of drama and tragedy such as Creator/ChristopherMarlowe and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Kyd introduced the classic revenge plot, FeudingFamilies in fancy exotic settings, and most importantly the use of iambic pentameter and blank verse to tell a tragedy. The English, rather than feeling like they were playing second fiddle to the tragedies of Spain and Italy, could then have a homegrown version in colloquial language, and this marked the start of the GoldenAge of English Literature.Literature.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Numerous important elements of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', such as the ghost calling for revenge, and the use of a play-within-a-play to trap the villains, were inspired by this play.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Numerous important elements of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', such as the ghost calling for revenge, and the use of a play-within-a-play to trap the villains, were inspired by this play.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This play paved the way for for Elizabethan and Jacobean authors of drama and tragedy such as Creator/ChristopherMarlowe and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Kyd introduced the classic revenge plot, FeudingFamilies in fancy exotic settings, and most importantly the use of iambic pentameter and blank verse to tell a tragedy. The English, rather than feeling like they were playing second fiddle to the tragedies of Spain and Italy, could then have a homegrown version in colloquial language, and this marked the start of the GoldenAge of English Literature.
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GenreTurningPoint: This play paved the way for for Elizabethan and Jacobean authors of drama and tragedy such as Creator/ChristopherMarlowe and Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Kyd introduced the classic revenge plot, FeudingFamilies in fancy exotic settings, and most importantly the use of iambic pentameter and blank verse to tell a tragedy. The English, rather than feeling like they were playing second fiddle to the tragedies of Spain and Italy, could then have a homegrown version in colloquial language, and this marked the start of the GoldenAge of English Literature.
