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Book SynopsisDoing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights.
Trade Review‘Thomas Kyd’s oft-taught revenge play The Spanish Tragedy engages with issues resonant in our time: authoritarianism, economic and social inequality, globalization, and the seeming impossibility of worldly justice. Though this collection emerged from a 2006 workshop at the University of Warwick and seems to have had a long gestation, its publication is well-timed for the current political moment.’
Early Theatre 20.1, Marianne Montgomery, East Carolina University
‘This valuable compendium, which revisits the critical reception of a landmark play and confirms its relevance for modern-day audiences, concludes with Cinpoes¸’s comprehensive bibliography of Kyd studies from 1993 to 2013 as well as an index.’
Dana E. Aspinall, Alma College, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies XX (X)
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Table of ContentsForeword – Nicoleta Cinpoes
Introduction: Supernatural structures in Kyd and Shakespeare – Philip Edwards
Part I: ‘Vindicta mihi’
1. Enacting revenge – Jonathan Bate
2. Vindicating revenge – Evghenii Musica
3. Gendering revenge – Kristine Steenbergh
Part II: The Spanish Tragedy in print
4. ‘Undoing Kyd’: the texts of The Spanish Tragedy – Simon Barker
5. Editing The Spanish Tragedy – Jesús Tronch
Part III: ‘Chronicles of Spain’ or Tales of Albion?
6. How Spanish is The Spanish Tragedy? Dynastic policy and colonial expansion in revenge tragedy – Clara Calvo
7. Kyd’s Use of Antonio Pérez’ Las Relaciones in The Spanish Tragedy – Frank Ardolino
8. The Spanish Tragedy and its continental contexts – Ton Hoenselaars and Helmer Helmers
Part IV: Doing Kyd
9. Staging Babel: The Spanish Tragedy in performance – Tony Howard
10. Hieronimo still mad: why adapt The Spanish Tragedy today? – Tod Davies
Part V: Thomas Kyd bibliography 1993–2013 – Nicoleta Cinpoes
Afterword: ‘What is a play without a woman in it?’ – Carol Chillington Rutter
Contributors
Index
