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Also Known As Jacobean tragedy • tragedy of blood

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Title page of a 1615 edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
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John Ford
British dramatist
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John Marston
British dramatist
Title page of a 1615 edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
Thomas Kyd
English dramatist
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
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John Webster
English dramatist
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Henry Chettle
English dramatist
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Cyril Tourneur
English dramatist