Doing Kyd - Essays on the Spanish Tragedy

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.

List of 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

About the author

Nicoleta Cinpoes is Senior Lecturer in English – Shakespeare at the University of Worcester

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Nicoleta Cinpoes
• Assisted by: Nicoleta Cinpoes (Editor), Cinpoes Nicoleta (Editor), Paul Edmondson (Editor), Martin White (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781526127150
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2715-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Revels Plays Companion Library; Revels Plays Companion Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights