Description
Book SynopsisBrilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed
Trade Review'Lukas Erne's study of Kyd is remarkable: it engages straightforwardly with this immensely important playwright and presents a great deal that is substantially original and of real significance. Serious students of English Renaissance drama will certainly find this book indispensable, and as an added bonus, it is a pleasure to read.'Professor Brian Gibbons, General Editor of the New Mermaids
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Don Horatio and The First Part of Hieronimo
2. The Spanish Tragedy: an introduction
3. The Spanish Tragedy: origins
4. The Spanish Tragedy: framing revenge
5. The Spanish Tragedy: additions, adaptations, modern stage history
6. Hamlet
7. Soliman and Perseda: an introduction
8. Soliman and Perseda: the play and its making
9. Cornelia
10. Other works and apocrypha
Appendix: Kyd's patron
Select Bibliography
Index
