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The Spanish Tragedy
by Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (1558-94) is the most shadowy, least-known member of the first generation of great English dramatists, the generation that featured Christopher Marlowe ...
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The English dramatist Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) is best known for "The Spanish Tragedy," a play that was a great popular success and did much to influence the course of English tragedy of the late Renais...
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Thomas Kyd's place in the history of English Renaissance drama is secured by one surviving play, The Spanish Tragedy. Impressive in itself, it is also momentous in its influence as one of the first ma...
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In the following essay, which was first published in 1940, Bowers examines The Spanish Tragedy and the Ur-Hamlet as examples of the prototypical revenge tragedy, outlining the basic Kydian formula for...
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Critical Essay by Fredson Thayer Bowers
