It is hard to argue with Nietzsche: despite countless attempts at familiarising ourselves with revenge, we, 'people', are invariably baffled by it. Whether it is the subject of an analytic inquiry, debate or artistic representation, and, particularly, if it is an act to be executed, suffered or investigated, revenge remains particularly unsettling. It is worth reminding ourselves again that we are only the audience and The Spanish Tragedy, as well as countless other revenge tragedies, is only a figment of human imagination. The value of Elizabethan revenge tragedy and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy in particular is in their unique ability to expose universality assumed by law and civilisation at the break of modernity as completely illusory and, thus, as the true problem pertaining to the notion of justice. Revenge is a regrettable aberration caused either by a lack of civilisation or by a significant regression from it.