{"product_id":"doing-kyd-essays-on-the-spanish-tragedy-revels-plays-companion-library-9780719083822","title":"Doing Kyd Essays on the Spanish Tragedy Revels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Thomas Kyd’s oft-taught revenge play \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Tragedy \u003c\/i\u003eengages 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.’\u003cbr\u003eEarly Theatre 20.1, Marianne Montgomery, East Carolina University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003eDana E. Aspinall, Alma College, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies XX (X)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword – Nicoleta Cinpoes\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Supernatural structures in Kyd and Shakespeare – Philip Edwards\u003cbr\u003ePart I: ‘Vindicta mihi’\u003cbr\u003e1. Enacting revenge – Jonathan Bate\u003cbr\u003e2. Vindicating revenge – Evghenii Musica        \u003cbr\u003e3. Gendering revenge – Kristine Steenbergh\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The Spanish Tragedy in print\u003cbr\u003e4. ‘Undoing Kyd’: the texts of The Spanish Tragedy – Simon Barker\u003cbr\u003e5. Editing The Spanish Tragedy – Jesús Tronch                  \u003cbr\u003ePart III: ‘Chronicles of Spain’ or Tales of Albion?\u003cbr\u003e6. How Spanish is The Spanish Tragedy? Dynastic policy and colonial expansion in revenge tragedy – Clara Calvo\u003cbr\u003e7. Kyd’s Use of Antonio Pérez’ Las Relaciones in The Spanish Tragedy – Frank Ardolino                 \u003cbr\u003e8. The Spanish Tragedy and its continental contexts – Ton Hoenselaars and Helmer Helmers\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Doing Kyd\u003cbr\u003e9. Staging Babel: The Spanish Tragedy in performance – Tony Howard\u003cbr\u003e10. Hieronimo still mad: why adapt The Spanish Tragedy today? – Tod Davies\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Thomas Kyd bibliography 1993–2013 – Nicoleta Cinpoes\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: ‘What is a play without a woman in it?’ – Carol Chillington Rutter\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018393649495,"sku":"9780719083822","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/doing-kyd-essays-on-the-spanish-tragedy-revels-plays-companion-library-9780719083822","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}