Doing Kyd - Essays on the Spanish Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Nicoleta Cinpoes is Senior Lecturer in English – Shakespeare at the University of Worcester Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Nicoleta CinpoesIntroduction: Supernatural structures in Kyd and Shakespeare - Philip EdwardsPart I: 'Vindicta mihi'1. Enacting revenge - Jonathan Bate2. Vindicating revenge - Evghenii Musica 3. Gendering revenge - Kristine SteenberghPart II: The Spanish Tragedy in print4. 'Undoing Kyd': the texts of The Spanish Tragedy - Simon Barker5. 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 Calvo7. 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 HelmersPart IV: Doing Kyd9. Staging Babel: The Spanish Tragedy in performance - Tony Howard10. Hieronimo still mad: why adapt The Spanish Tragedy today? - Tod DaviesPart V: Thomas Kyd bibliography 1993-2013 - Nicoleta CinpoesAfterword: 'What is a play without a woman in it?' - Carol Chillington RutterContributorsIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nicoleta Cinpoes
• Mitarbeit: Nicoleta Cinpoes (Herausgeber), Cinpoes Nicoleta (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.01.2016
• EAN: 9780719083822
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8382-2
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Revels Plays Companion Library; Revels Plays Companion Library
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights