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A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's, which is now known as the Ur-Hamlet.
Playwright Thomas Kyd, a few years older than William Shakespeare, was probably as influential in the development of Renaissance drama as the Bard, even though he died at the age of thirty-six. He is the author of The Spanish Tragedy, the revenge tragedy that sparked the hugely popular...
Thomas Kyd was an English dramatist who, with his The Spanish Tragedy (sometimes called Hieronimo, or Jeronimo, after its protagonist), initiated the revenge tragedy of his day. Kyd anticipated the structure of many later plays, including the development of middle and final climaxes.
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Jul 18, 2023 · Of the playwrights from whom Shakespeare borrowed, the one who particularly stands out is Thomas Kyd, writes Freebury-Jones, Lecturer of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Kyd was an important Elizabethan dramatist, best known as the author of The Spanish Tragedy.
An introduction to a classic revenge tragedy. The Spanish Tragedy is one of the lesser-known gems among surviving Elizabethan drama – at least, it’s less well-known than the works of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
Dec 5, 2012 · Six years older than Shakespeare and Marlowe, Thomas Kyd (1558–94) shares with them the honour of being among the first writers of tragedy in English. Together, Kyd, Marlowe and Shakespeare turned the decasyllabic blank verse into the form of expression that gave English Renaissance drama its unique character.
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The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again [1] is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre: the revenge play or revenge tragedy.
