Doing Kyd : essays on The Spanish tragedy / edited by Nicoleta Cinpoeş.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cinpoes, Nicoleta, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revels plays companion library

The Revels plays companion library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594. Spanish tragedy--History and criticism.

Kyd, Thomas.

Physical Description:

xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press 2016.

Summary:

Doing 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, from his contemporaries Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, to Thomas Middleton, John Webster and John Ford. This collection of essays offers a wide understanding of early modern playwriting and playgoing. It examines with specialist attention the context from which Thomas Kyd's dramatic work emerged, the play's immediate impact and its legacy in print, stage productions and the challenges posed, issues from genre to gender in theories of revenge, and editing the play - not just for the page but also for the stage and screen. As a collective effort, it assembles the top scholars in the field including editors, theatre historians, theory scholars and critics, and benefits from their wealth of work on this play, bringing together international expertise - veterans and young alike - to 'do Kyd'. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this volume appears at a time when Thomas Kyd and his play are back in the spotlight, through renewed critical interest, several new stage productions between 2009 and 2013, and its firm presence in the Higher Education curriculum for English and Drama. As a historical and critical companion to recent editions of the play, such as the Arden and Norton editions, it will be of interest to lecturers, students, dramaturges and translators of early modern drama, but also to editors and performance historians with a particular interest in non-Shakespearean drama. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I 'Vindicta mihi'

1 Supernatural structures in Kyd and Shakespeare / Philip Edwards Edwards, Philip 15

2 Enacting revenge: the mingled yarn of Elizabethan tragedy / Jonathan Bate Bate, Jonathan 25

3 Vindicating revenge / Evghenii Musica Musica, Evghenii 43

4 Gendering revenge in The Spanish Tragedy: feminine fury and the contagiousness of theatrical passion / Kristine Seenbergh Seenbergh, Kristine 53

Part II The Spanish Tragedy in print

5 'Undoing Kyd': the texts of The Spanish Tragedy / Simon Barker Barker, Simon 75

6 Editing The Spanish Tragedy in the early twenty-first century / Jesús Tronch Tronch, Jesús 88

Part III 'Chronicles of Spain' or tales of Albion?

7 How Spanish is The Spanish Tragedy? Dynastic policy and colonial expansion in revenge tragedy / Clara Calvo Calvo, Clara 111

8 Kyd's use of Antonio Pérezs Las Relaciones in The Spanish Tragedy / Frank Ardolino Ardolino, Frank 129

9 The Spanish Tragedy and revenge tragedy in seventeenth-century Britain and the Low Countries / Ton Hoenselaars Hoenselaars, Ton, Helmer Helmers Helmers, Helmer 144

Part IV Doing Kyd

10 Staging Babel: The Spanish Tragedy IV.iv in performance / Tony Howard Howard, Tony 171

11 Hieronimo still mad: why adapt The Spanish Tragedy today? / Tod Davies Davies, Tod 195

12 'For what's a play without a woman in it?' / Carol Chillington Rutter Rutter, Carol Chillington 201

Part V Thomas Kyd bibliography 1993-2013 / Nicoleta Cinpoes Cinpoes, Nicoleta 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719083822

0719083826

OCLC:

907131288