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Kyd, Thomas
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Kyd, Thomas, or Thomas Kid (1558–94), dramatist, born in London. He wrote plays (now lost) for the Queen's Men (
c.1583–85). He seems to have been closely associated with
Marlowe, whose ‘atheistical’ writings led to Kyd's suffering a period of torture and imprisonment. His
Spanish Tragedy was published anonymously in 1592.
Cornelia (1594) was re-issued in 1595 as
Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie. The First Part of Jeronimo (1605) is a fore-piece to
The Spanish Tragedy, but probably not the work of Kyd. Other works Kyd may have written are
The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda (1592) and a lost pre-Shakespearian play on the subject of Hamlet.
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Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd, by Lukas Erne. Manchester and...say with reasonable certainty that Thomas Kyd was the author of one extraordinarily...Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd, Lucas Erne sets out to prove that...
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Beyond 'The Spanish Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Tragedy': A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd. By LUKAS ERNE. (Revels Plays...development of English tragedy, Thomas Kyd has fared poorly both critically...the most recent Arthur Freeman's Thomas Kyd: Facts and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon...
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Staging the vernacular: language and nation in Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy.'
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Philosophical Investigations Now to express the rupture of my part First take my tongue, and afterward my heart. - Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy In his preface to A Table Alphabeticall (1604), Robert Cawdrey imagines the discomfort engendered...
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Shakespeare's additions to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish tragedy; a fresh look at the evidence regarding the 1602 additions.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 515 words
; 9780773452275 Shakespeare's additions to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish tragedy; a fresh look at the evidence regarding the 1602 additions. Stevenson, Warren. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008...
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Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.(Thomas Kyd)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...parallels in The Spanish Tragedy suggests that Kyd wanted his audience to recognize the typological...by God. This distinction is the context of Kyd's depiction of Hieronimo's act of sacred revenge. Kyd develops the connection between Zedekiah and...
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Absorbing Interests: Kyd's Bloody Handkerchief as Palimpsest.(Thomas Kyd)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...bloody handkerchief popularized by Thomas Kyd's spectacularly successful The Spanish...As it moves through the play, Kyd's bloody handkerchief invokes previous...loathed and feared by a great many in Kyd's audience--the Protestant Lord...
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Apocalypse and Armada in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Ardolino's allegorical reading of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy claims to uncover...instance of divine retribution that (for Kyd and his audience) was carried out...parallels that Ardolino finds between Kyd's characters and the names of various...
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Stanley Wells. Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...s earliest writing colleagues. Devoting a page or two each to John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Thomas Nashe, and Thomas Kyd, he takes the rest of the chapter to write in detail about the most influential playwright...
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Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middletown, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middletown, John Fletcher and the Other Players...playwrights, such as Lyly, Greene, Peele, and Kyd. The analysis of Marlowe flows with rich information...
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Review of Lukas Erne, Beyond the Spanish Tragedy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 9/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001...Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd." Early Modern Literary Studies...ardorev.html>. Many aspects of Thomas Kyd's career and canon are obscure...
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Thomas Kyd
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Kyd The English dramatist Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) is best known for "The Spanish Tragedy," a...influence the course of English tragedy of the late Renaissance. Thomas Kyd was the son of Francis Kyd, a scrivener, or professional scribe...
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Kyd, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Kyd, Thomas, or Thomas Kid (1558–94), dramatist, born in London. He...with Marlowe , whose ‘atheistical’ writings led to Kyd's suffering a period of torture and imprisonment. His Spanish Tragedy...
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Thomas Kid
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Kid see Kyd, Thomas .
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Kid, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Kid, Thomas, see Kyd .
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Marlowe, Christopher (1564–1593)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...have shared a lodging with another dramatist of the age, Thomas Kyd, who was to say of Marlowe (in 1593) that he was "intemperate...people involved, including Friser, who was employed by Thomas Walsingham, the nephew of Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen...
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