Hieronimo is just generally a more sympathetic character than Titus: he's a loving father rather than a domineering Pater Familias Titus elicits our sympathy just from the sheer enormity of his calamities, whereas we can really feel Hieronimo's heart-rending grief as the father of a murdered son. The Spanish Tragedy hits most of the same notes as Titus, but without it's extreme violence and over-the-top characterizations: it's a more subtle work, focusing just as much on Hieronimo and his wife's grief as on their desire for revenge. The Shakespeare play that it can be most easily compared to is Titus Andronicus, seeing as they're both by-the-books revenge tragedies, but I actually think that The Spanish Tragedy is better. I knew that it was extremely popular in its day, but I was honestly surprised by how good it was: it was a lot better than I expected it to be. Yesterday, I read Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. There are a number of other subs that discuss the various theories that someone other than the man from Stratford wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare. Shakespeare may have been a master at murdering people with words, but as the late, great Chadwick Boseman said, 'We don't do that here.' Keep it civil, please. Homework questions that fail to meet these requirements will be removed. Don't just drop the question and come back later looking for the answer. We appreciate when you stick around and get involved in the discussion, also. Please bring your own work to the party, showing us what effort you've already made to answer the question, rather than just copying the question straight from your assignment. If you're here looking for homework help, please flair your question as such.

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