A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05

W. CAREW HAZLITT.
BENJAMIN BLOM, INC.
New York


The Spanish Tragedie. Containing the lamentable end of Don Horatio.... At London printed by William White dwelling in Cow-lane. 1599. 4°.
The Spanish Tragedie: Containing... enlarged with new additions of the Painters part and others, as it hath of late been divers time acted. Imprinted at London by W. W. for T. Pauier.... 1602. 4°.
Other editions appeared in 1610, &c., an account of which may be found in Halliwell's Dictionary. Compare also Hazlitt, art. Kyd.

There is no exact authority for calling Allde's undated 4to the second edition, as Hawkins did, since we do not know how many others may have preceded it. The play was licenced in October 1592; but of a first edition, not purporting to be amended, no copy has been yet found. The allusion to Jeronimo, which occurs in the introduction to Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, probably refers to the First Part of Jeronimo.

Cotton alludes to this play even as late as in the prologue to his Scoffer Scoff'd —