Beyond "The Spanish Tragedy"

Beyond
Author: Lukas Erne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 9780719060939

This is the first book in more than thirty years on the playwright who is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, The Spanish Tragedy - the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage - receives the extensive scholarly and criticaltreatment it deserves, including a full reception and modern stage history. Yet as Erne shows, Thomas Kyd is much more than the author of a single masterpiece. Don Horatio (partly extant in The First Part of Hieronimo), the lost early Hamlet, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia all belong to whatemerges in this study for the first time as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.

The Spanish Tragedy

The Spanish Tragedy
Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752381388

Reproduction of the original: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedy

The Spanish Tragedy
Author: Thomas Rist
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472522842

The Spanish Tragedy was the first 'revenge tragedy' on the English Renaissance stage: but for its influence, major dramas including The Revenger's Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and even Hamlet would not exist as they do. It is thus a key text for the study of Renaissance drama and normally appears in introductory undergraduate courses on Renaissance drama and Shakespeare. Despite its initial smash-hit status, after the closing of the theatres in 1642 the play was only once performed in Britain before its gradual revival in the 20th century. Following its first professional performance in 1973, the play has come to be recognised as a Renaissance classic, receiving frequent performance. This volume will bring together its most insightful and influential modern scholars to produce an edition read both by experts in the field and lovers of Thomas Kyd's drama.

The Spanish Tragedy

The Spanish Tragedy
Author: Raymond Carr
Publisher: Phoenix
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781842122037

Raymond Carr's succinct and elegant volume is recognised as the classic account of the war, 'brother against brother', which established the Franco regime in Spain. Carr focuses on the disparities in Spanish society, between classes and the regions, and within these between centralists and separatists. He exposes the pitiful weaknesses of the political parties, which enabled Franco, 'the iron surgeon', to overthrow Catalan separatists and proletarian socialists alike. It was a war in which the riven country of Spain became the battleground of international forces, a war which aroused the fiercest political passions, and which became the vicious preliminary skirmish in the great clash of ideologies fought out in World War Two.

Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship

Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship
Author: Hugh Craig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-08-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521516234

Using computer analysis, this book confronts the main unsolved mysteries of authorship in Shakespeare's canon, providing some surprising conclusions.

The Poetics of Plot

The Poetics of Plot
Author: Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1985
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719014734

The Spanish Tragedy

The Spanish Tragedy
Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408114216

The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genrethat became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, TheSpanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history ofEnglish Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain duringits war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murderedfor courting Bel-Imperia, the Duke of Castile's daughter, and decidesto take justice into his own hands… This new student edition has been freshly revised by ProfessorAndrew Gurr to incorporate the latest stage history and criticalinterpretations of the play. It also appends the scenes that were addedin 1602, discusses Elizabethan attitudes to revenge, the Senecanfeatures of the play and the significance of the Anglo-Spanish conflictin the 1580s.

Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law
Author: Derek Dunne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137572876

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

Soliman and Perseda, by Thomas Kyd

Soliman and Perseda, by Thomas Kyd
Author: Lukas Erne
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2014-12-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719095856

Soliman and Perseda, written c. 1588 and first published in 1592 or 1593, is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus, and the fortunes of the comic servant Piston and the braggart knight Basilisco, against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. The introduction to this facsimile edition contains the fullest analysis of the text to date. It also provides an account of the play's editorial history, a detailed analysis of its original printing, and lists of all erroneous readings in the first quarto, together with significant differences between the first and second quartos. This edition provides the best access we have to an important play by one of Shakespeare's leading early contemporaries.