I just finished [The Spanish tragedy] and I think so far it is the mother of revenge plays. Kyd by this play sat the characteristics of the tragic drama, Other contemporary playwrights followed his theatrical convictions. And could not draw their own line in drama, some new themes, techniques as well, were highly repeated by other Elizabethan playwrights. Shakespeare for instance borrowed various aspects in his play [Hamlet] even (the mouse trap) a motif highly recurrent in Shakespearean tragedies was firstly determined by [[kyd]] when Hieronimo managed to avenge his son (Horatio) .