Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A study of the works of Thomas Kyd (The Revels Plays Companions Library) - Softcover

Erne, Lukas

 
9780719079498: Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A study of the works of Thomas Kyd (The Revels Plays Companions Library)
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ISBN 10: 0719079497 ISBN 13: 9780719079498
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2009

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Brilliantly 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

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Lukas Erne is Professor of English in the Département d'anglais, Université de Genève

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Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries came about. Called 'an extraordinary dramatic ... genius' by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Kyd invented the revenge tragedy genre that culminated in Shakespeare's Hamlet some twelve years later.

In this study, The Spanish Tragedy - the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage - receives the extensive scholarly and critical treatment it deserves, including a full reception and modern stage history. Yet as Erne shows, Thomas Kyd is much more than the author of a single masterpiece. Don Horatio (partly extant in The First Part of Hieronimo), the lost early Hamlet, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia all belong to what emerges in this work as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.

This groundbreaking study is now in paperback.

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Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries came about. Called 'an extraordinary dramatic genius' by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Kyd invented the revenge tragedy genre that culminated in Shakespeare's Hamlet some twelve years later.In this study, The Spanish Tragedy the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage receives the extensive scholarly and critical treatment it deserves, including a full reception and modern stage history. Yet as Erne shows, Thomas Kyd is much more than the author of a single masterpiece. Don Horatio (partly extant in The First Part of Hieronimo), the lost early Hamlet, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia all belong to what emerges in this work as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.This groundbreaking study is now in paperback.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719079497
ISBN 13 
9780719079498
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