For other people named Thomas Kidd, see Thomas Kidd (disambiguation).
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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 figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Thomas Heywood, in his Apologie for Actors (1612), attributed the play to Kyd. 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.
ThomasKyd (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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Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. ThomasKyd is also sometimes included...
were given by ThomasKyd after his imprisonment and possible torture (see above); Kyd and Baines connect Marlowe with mathematician Thomas Harriot's and...
earlier play—now lost—known today as the Ur-Hamlet. Possibly written by ThomasKyd or by Shakespeare, the Ur-Hamlet would have existed by 1589, and would...
Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Hooker, Ben Jonson, Philip Sidney and ThomasKyd. Elizabeth I presided over a vigorous culture that saw notable accomplishments...
playwrights. The Spanish Tragedy is an Elizabethan tragedy written by ThomasKyd between 1582 and 1592, which was popular and influential in its time,...
the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. 1593 – London playwright ThomasKyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. 1743 – Maria...
(non-Shakespearean) Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy by ThomasKyd The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe...
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...
earlier play—now lost—known today as the Ur-Hamlet. Possibly written by ThomasKyd, the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589 and was seemingly...
"Hieronimo" (Geronimo) in the play The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1586), by ThomasKyd (1558–94), the first revenge tragedy in English literature. By 1597, he...
Jew of Malta. The audiences particularly liked revenge dramas, such as ThomasKyd's The Spanish Tragedy. The four tragedies considered to be Shakespeare's...
Wars of Pompey and Caesar (c. 1604). Another contemporary treatment by ThomasKyd, Cornelia, or Pompey the Great, his faire Cornelia's tragedy (1594), was...
Garnier's play Cornélie and its English language adaptation Cornelia by ThomasKyd. In the first season of the TV series Rome, broadcast in 2005, Cornelia...
Shakespeare's plays, in the period after the death of Christopher Marlowe and ThomasKyd but before the ascendancy of Ben Jonson during which Shakespeare was London's...
were influenced by the works of other Elizabethan dramatists, especially ThomasKyd and Christopher Marlowe, by the traditions of medieval drama, and by the...
Conjuring (1607), Thomas Dekker places the player John Bentley (1553–85) among a company of deceased playwrights, Thomas Watson, ThomasKyd, and Achelley...
respective narratives. This dramatic device was probably first used by ThomasKyd in The Spanish Tragedy around 1587, where the play is presented before...
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...
King Leir. The play has been variously attributed to ThomasKyd, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Anthony Munday, and Shakespeare himself. The...
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