"The Spanish Tragedie, or Hieronimo is Mad Againe", written in the late 16th century, is a work by which playwright?

Question

Which author, poet, playwright, actor, Shintoist and nationalist committed seppuku in 1970 after declaring "Long live the Emperor"?

Answer 1

Thomas Kyd
The play introduced revenge tragedy as a genre in English theatre. Many elements of it, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear later in Shakespeare's Hamlet.