Doing Kyd : essays on The Spanish Tragedy / edited by Nicoleta Cinpoes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cinpoes, Nicoleta, editor.

Frost, Matthew, other.

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Series:

Revels plays companion library

Manchester Shakespeare collection

Revels Plays Companion Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Kyd, Thomas.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

<i>Doing Kyd</i> reads Thomas Kyd's <i>The Spanish Tragedy</i>, 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 Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster and Ford. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this collection is crucial in two respects: firstly, it has a wide spectrum, addressing readers with interests in the play from its early impact as the first sixteenth-century revenge tragedy, to its afterlife in print, on the stage, in screen adaptation and bibliographical studies. Secondly, the collection appears at a time when 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 higher-education curriculum for English and drama..

Contents:

Foreword / Nicoleta Cinpoes

Introduction: Supernatural structures in Kyd and Shakespeare / Philip Edwards

Part I: 'Vindicta mihi'1. Enacting revenge / Jonathan Bate

2. Vindicating revenge / Evghenii Musica

3. Gendering revenge / Kristine Steenbergh

Part II: The Spanish Tragedy in print

4. 'Undoing Kyd': the texts of The Spanish Tragedy / Simon Barker

5. Editing The Spanish Tragedy / Jesús Tronch

Part III: 'Chronicles of Spain' or Tales of Albion?

6. How Spanish is The Spanish Tragedy? Dynastic policy and colonial expansion in revenge tragedy / Clara Calvo

7. Kyd's Use of Antonio Pérez' Las Relaciones in The Spanish Tragedy / Frank Ardolino

8. The Spanish Tragedy and its continental contexts / Ton Hoenselaars and Helmer Helmers

Part IV: Doing Kyd

9. Staging Babel: The Spanish Tragedy in performance / Tony Howard

10. Hieronimo still mad: why adapt The Spanish Tragedy today? -/Tod Davies

Part V: Thomas Kyd bibliography 1993-2013 / Nicoleta Cinpoes

Afterword: 'What is a play without a woman in it?' / Carol Chillington Rutter

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

First published in print form: 2016.

In-house editor: Matthew Frost.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cinpoeş̧, Nicoleta. Doing Kyd: essays on The Spanish tragedy,

ISBN:

9781526108944

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.