The Spanish tragedy : authoritative text , sources and contexts, criticism / Thomas Kyd ; edited by Michael Neill, University of Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594.

Contributor:

Neill, Michael, 1942- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594. Spanish tragedy.

Kyd, Thomas.

Physical Description:

xl, 289 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction

The text of The Spanish tragedy

Contexts. Sources and biography. [Aeneas in the underworld] / Virgil ; [Soliman and Perseda] / Jacques Yver ; [The Earl of Leicester betrays his own servant] / Anonymous ; [Satiric criticism of Kyd] / Thomas Nashe

Revenge. From An exhortation concerning good order and obedience to rulers and magistrates ; From Of cruelty and from Cowardice, the mother of cruelty / Michel de Montaigne ; Of revenge / Francis Bacon

Contemporary reception. [The ballad of The Spanish tragedy] / Anonymous

Criticism. Stagecraft. From The Spanish tragedy: architectonic design / Michael Hattaway ; The language of the play. From The Spanish tragedy, or The pleasures and perils of rhetoric / Jonas A. Barish ; Metadramatic readings. From The Spanish tragedy: a speaking picture / Donna B. Hamilton ; Justice and revenge. From Ironies of justice in The Spanish tragedy / G.K. Hunter ; From Hieronimo, justice and dramatist / Lorna Hutson ; Violence and death. From The theater and the scaffold: death as spectacle in The Spanish tragedy / Molly Smith ; Politics and subversion. From Nationality and language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish tragedy / J.R. Mulryne ; The play of opposites. From Thomas Kyd: The Spanish tragedy / T. McAlindon ; Iconography. From Absorbing interests: Kyd's bloody handkerchief as palimpsest / Andrew Sofer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393934007

0393934004

OCLC:

843454745