Beyond The Spanish tragedy : a study of the works of Thomas Kyd / Lukas Erne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erne, Lukas.

Series:

Revels plays companion library

The Revels plays companion library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594--Criticism and interpretation.

Kyd, Thomas.

Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

This is the first book in more than thirty years on the playwright who is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, "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 study for the first time as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.

Contents:

Thomas Kyd's life and works: a chronology xv

1 Don Horatio and The First Part of Hieronimo 14

2 The Spanish Tragedy: an introduction 47

3 The Spanish Tragedy: origins 79

4 The Spanish Tragedy: framing revenge 95

5 The Spanish Tragedy: additions, adaptations, modern stage history 119

6 Hamlet 146

7 Soliman and Perseda: an introduction 157

8 Soliman and Perseda: the play and its making 168

9 Cornelia 203

10 Other works and apocrypha 217

Appendix Kyd's patron 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-241) and index.

ISBN:

0719060931

OCLC:

48014874