Abstract
This article presents the harmony of the Bible and Greek Mythology in Tirso de Molina’s play, La venganza de Tamar. Through the confluence of the historical events of Amnon and Tamar in the Old Testament and the Myth of Narcissus in Greek Mythology, Tirso creates La venganza de Tamar, a ‘psychological’ play, which was rare in the Golden-Age plays. This study proves that Tirso instills a narcissistic personality and psychology into the biblical characters, allowing readers or spectators to empathize with the character’s actions, allowing them to go down into the depths of historical events rather than staying on the superficial surface. Together, Tirso cites excessive pursuit of desire as the cause of the Davidic dynasty’s crisis and conveys this message to Spanish society at the time in an aesthetic way.
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