My son-and what's a son? A thing begot
Within a pair of minutes, thereabout,
A lump bred up in darkness.

Thomas Kyd

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Topic

Parents and children

Speaker

Don Hieronimo

Author

Thomas Kyd

Source

The Spanish Tragedy

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1592 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. 1592, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 11.

Current Citation

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy, edited by Michael Neill. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, act 3, sc. 11.

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