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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
