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- That letter is the source for almost everything that is known about Kyd’s life. He was dead by Dec. 30, 1594, when his mother made a formal repudiation of her son’s debt-ridden estate.
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Kyd died later that year at the age of 35, and was buried on 15 August in St Mary Colechurch in London. In December of that same year, Kyd's mother legally renounced the administration of his estate, probably because it was debt-ridden. [2] St Mary Colechurch was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt.
Thomas Kyd was an English dramatist who, with his The Spanish Tragedy (sometimes called Hieronimo, or Jeronimo, after its protagonist), initiated the revenge tragedy of his day. Kyd anticipated the structure of many later plays, including the development of middle and final climaxes.
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Aug 13, 2012 · On 11 May 1593, the posting of the Dutch Church Libel - an anti-alien attack in blank verse signed by 'Tamburlaine', Marlowe's beloved character - resulted in Kyd's arrest. When an Arianist tract was found in his lodgings, Kyd claimed it belonged to Marlowe, his former roommate.
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Evidence suggests that in the 1580s, Kyd became an important playwright, but little is known about his activity. Francis Meres placed him among "our best for tragedy" and Heywood elsewhere called him "Famous Kyd." Ben Jonson mentions Kyd in the same breath as Christopher Marlowe and John Lylyin Shakespeare’s First Folio. The Spanish Tragedie was pr...
On or about 1587 Kyd entered the service of a noble, possibly Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, who sponsored a company of actors. He may have worked as a secretary, if not also as a playwright. Around 1591 Christopher Marlowealso joined this patron's service, and for a while Marlowe and Kyd shared lodgings. On May 11, 1593 the Privy Council ordere...
First printed around 1592, The Spanish Tragedy is one of the most important single plays in all of Elizabethan literature. Modeled after classical Latin tragedies—most notably those of Seneca— the play is largely responsible for the resurgence of tragic drama in sixteenth-century literature. Countless playwrights would imitate the play's themes of ...
Edwards, Philip. The Spanish Tragedy. Methuen, 1959. Reprinted 1974. ISBN 0416279201Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. New York: Vintage, 2002 (revised edition). ISBN 0099437473Indeeed, Kyd, who died shortly after being tortured for information about his friend Kit Marlowe, is the leading candidate for the authorship of the ‘Ur–Hamlet’, which served as the prototype for Shakespeare’s play.
The Spanish Tragedy. Title page of the 1615 edition. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again[1] is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre: the revenge play or revenge tragedy.
Summary. Prior to the beginning of the play, a Spanish officer, Don Andrea, has been killed in battle during a dispute between the Viceroy of Portugal and the ruling Spanish nation. In combat, the Viceroy’s son, Balthazar, killed Andrea and was subsequently captured.
