The Spanish Tragedy

“Thy death shall bury what thy life conceals,” Lorenzo warns a frightened servant—and the answer he forces out turns a prince’s rejected love toward revenge.

At the Spanish court, where a marriage may seal a kingdom’s peace, Bel-imperia has given her heart to Horatio, the knight who once defeated Prince Balthazar in battle. But Balthazar still hopes to win her, and her brother Lorenzo knows how to make a private passion serve a darker purpose: he buys a servant’s silence, then sets watchers on the lovers’ secret meeting. As vows of love are spoken, unseen listeners are already imagining death. Can Bel-imperia and Horatio’s “peaceful war” survive the revenge gathering around them?

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