Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important...
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Revenge tragedy (section Thomas Kyd)
Tourneur, now ascribed to Thomas Middleton. As established through the precedent of early English playwrights like Thomas Kyd, a good revenge play must...
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The Spanish Tragedy (category Plays by Thomas Kyd)
Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The...
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Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes included...
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earlier play—now lost—known today as the Ur-Hamlet. Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or by Shakespeare, the Ur-Hamlet would have existed by 1589, and would...
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Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Hooker, Ben Jonson, Philip Sidney and Thomas Kyd. Elizabeth I presided over a vigorous culture that saw notable accomplishments...
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were given by Thomas Kyd after his imprisonment and possible torture (see above); Kyd and Baines connect Marlowe with mathematician Thomas Harriot's and...
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Ur-Hamlet (category Plays by Thomas Kyd)
means "original") is a play by an unknown author, thought to be either Thomas Kyd or William Shakespeare. No copy of the play, dated by scholars to the...
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T. S. Eliot (redirect from Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM)
Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every...
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Gerald Kyd (born Gerasimos Avvakoumides in 1973 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a half-Greek, half-Scottish actor. Kyd starred as Sean Maddox in the BBC...
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plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre. Their plays blended the...
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(1746–1793), British botanist Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), English dramatist Warren Kyd (born 1939), New Zealand politician William Kyd (fl. 1430–1453), English...
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Edward III (play) (category Plays by Thomas Kyd)
the subject of debate: suggestions have included Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, Thomas Nashe and George Peele. The play contains several...
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playwrights. The Spanish Tragedy is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592, which was popular and influential in its time,...
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Sources of Hamlet (redirect from Kyd's Hamlet)
earlier play—now lost—known today as the Ur-Hamlet. Possibly written by Thomas Kyd, the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589 and was seemingly...
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(non-Shakespearean) Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe...
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Syd (singer) (redirect from Syd the Kyd)
Bennett (born April 23, 1992), known professionally as Syd (formerly Syd tha Kyd), is an American singer and songwriter. She initially gained recognition...
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Arden of Faversham (redirect from Thomas Arderne)
authorship by Kyd or Marlowe. It has also been suggested that it may be the work of Thomas Watson with contributions by Shakespeare. Thomas Arden, or Arderne...
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Jew of Malta. The audiences particularly liked revenge dramas, such as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. The four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's...
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"Hieronimo" (Geronimo) in the play The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1586), by Thomas Kyd (1558–94), the first revenge tragedy in English literature. By 1597, he...
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Wars of Pompey and Caesar (c. 1604). Another contemporary treatment by Thomas Kyd, Cornelia, or Pompey the Great, his faire Cornelia's tragedy (1594), was...
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Shakespeare's plays, in the period after the death of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd but before the ascendancy of Ben Jonson during which Shakespeare was London's...
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Garnier's play Cornélie and its English language adaptation Cornelia by Thomas Kyd. In the first season of the TV series Rome, broadcast in 2005, Cornelia...
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the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower. — Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, I, vi. 3 Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!...
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Chaucer; Elizabethan and Jacobean writers Edmund Spenser, Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster; 19th-century figures Gérard...
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were influenced by the works of other Elizabethan dramatists, especially Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, by the traditions of medieval drama, and by the...
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respective narratives. This dramatic device was probably first used by Thomas Kyd in The Spanish Tragedy around 1587, where the play is presented before...
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King Leir (category Plays by Thomas Kyd)
King Leir. The play has been variously attributed to Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Anthony Munday, and Shakespeare himself. The...
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Thomas Hughes Thomas Ingelend John Jeffere Ben Jonson Henry Killigrew Thomas Killigrew Thomas Kyd Sir Henry Lee Thomas Legge Thomas Lodge Thomas Lupton John...
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Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical plays focus on only a small part...
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