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	Thomas Kyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Kyd (1558 - 1594) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
		Kyd languished in obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of the play, discovered that he was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors.
		Thomas Kyd was the son of Francis and Anna Kyd and was baptized in the church of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London on November 6, 1558.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Kyd (987 words)

	THOMAS KYD - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS KYD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kyds next work was in all probability the tragedy of Soliman and Perseda, written perhaps in 1588 and licensed for the press in 1592, which, although anonymous, is assigned to him on strong internal evidence by Mr Boas.
		The importance of Kyd, as the pioneer in the wonderful movement of secular drama in England, gives great interest to his works, and we are now able at last to assert what many critics have long conjectured, that he takes in that movement the position of a leader and almost of an inventor.
		The influence of Kyd is marked on all the immediate predecessors of Shakespeare, and the bold way in which scenes of violent crime were treated on the Elizabethan stage appears to be directly owing to the example of Kyds innovating genius.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KY/KYD_THOMAS.htm (1675 words)

	Thomas Kyd
		Thomas Kyd was born in London in 1558, the son of Francis Kyd, a scrivener.
		Kyd is also credited with an early version of Hamlet, now lost, especially by those who regard as aimed at him an allusion to one who "will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches," in Nashe's preface to Greene's Menaphon.
		Kyd was connected with the coterie around the Countess of Pembroke who were interested in developing a literary tragedy, and he translated from Robert Garnier, called the "French Seneca," the tragedy of Cornelia, printed in 1594--the only extant play to bear Kyd's name on the title-page.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/kyd001.html (768 words)

	Kyd, Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kyd anticipated the structure of many later plays, including the development of middle and final climaxes.
		The son of a scrivener, Kyd was educated at the Merchant Taylors School in London.
		About 1591 Kyd was sharing lodgings with Christopher Marlowe, and on May 13, 1593, he was arrested and then tortured, being suspected of treasonable activity.
	search.eb.com /shakespeare/micro/332/53.html (353 words)

	Thomas Kyd
		At that time it was accidentally discovered in a treatise written by Thomas Heywood in which reference was made to the Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo as it was more generally called by Kyd's contemporaries.
		Thomas Kyd, we have learned, was the son of a London scrivener.
		Thomas Kyd: Bibliography - A bibliography of the works of Thomas Kyd; includes a list of critical resources.
	www.theatredatabase.com /16th_century/thomas_kyd_001.html (468 words)

	SparkNotes: Spanish Tragedy: Context
		Kyd, interestingly enough, is rumored to be the first playwright ever to put the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark onto the stage, but his version was much less popular than Shakespeare's and has been lost to history.
		Kyd protested that the pamphlet belonged to Marlowe, with whom he had been roommates in the summer of 1591, and that it had accidentally been shuffled in among his papers; Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl before he could confirm Kyd's testimony.
		Kyd spent the last year-and-a-half of his life in abject poverty, completing a translation of Robert Gardiner's play Cornelia from the original French, in the hope of establishing a patron in the Lady to whom the translation was dedicated.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/spanishtragedy/context.html (1229 words)

	Kyd, Thomas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Influence of Spenser's Faerie Queene on Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.
		Staging the vernacular: language and nation in Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy.'
		GEORGE H. Staging the vernacular: language and nation in Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy.'
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/kyd.asp (364 words)

	DID WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WRITE THE PLAY SIR THOMAS MORE?
		Kyd was released in November 1593, but the torture that he had endured and the circumstances in which he had lived for those eight months, meant that his health was so poor that he survived for a short time after his release, even though he was still only 36 years old.
		Thomas Kyd was born to Anna and Francis Kyd and baptised at St. Mary Woolnorth in the Ward of Langborn, on the 6th November 1558.
		Thomas Kyd was the author of The Spanish Tragedy pre-1587 (a forerunner to Shakespeare’s Hamlet) and had been introduced to Christopher Marlowe and they were engaged to write for the Earl of Sussex Players.
	www.pressbox.co.uk /Detailed/17738.html (1293 words)

	Why was Thomas Kyd Elizabethan Dramatist (b. 6/11/1558) tortured at Newgate Prison in 1593?
		Kyd wrote the forerunner to Hamlet, the Spanish Tragedy, which was one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan England.
		The dramatist Thomas Kyd was born to Anna and Francis Kyd and baptised at St. Mary Woolnorth in the Ward of Langborn, on 6th November, 1558.
		When Kyd was tortured, his fingers and thumbs were crushed to prevent him writing again; how tragic that he was cut down as a young man and died on the 15th August, 1594, at the age of 36.
	www.pressbox.co.uk /Detailed/17102.html (582 words)

	Hamlet and His Problems. Eliot, T. S. 1920. The Sacred Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Robertson believes to be scenes in the original play of Kyd reworked by a third hand, perhaps Chapman, before Shakespeare touched the play.
		And he concludes, with very strong show of reason, that the original play of Kyd was, like certain other revenge plays, in two parts of five acts each.
		Robertson's examination is, we believe, irrefragable: that Shakespeare's Hamlet, so far as it is Shakespeare's, is a play dealing with the effect of a mother's guilt upon her son, and that Shakespeare was unable to impose this motive successfully upon the "intractable" material of the old play.
	www.bartleby.com /200/sw9.html (1593 words)

	Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
		Inspired by the tragedies of Seneca, it tells the story of Horatio, the only son of the marshal of Spain, who falls in love with the beautiful Belimperia but is murdered by the Prince of Portugal and by Belimperia's brother Lorenzo who wants her to marry the Prince.
		Kyd's authorship of this play has come into doubt, but if he is indeed the author, then Kyd is the founder of middle-class tragedy as well the revenge play.
		Kyd was eventually released from prison, but seems to have been broken by the imprisonment, torture, and disgrace.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc25.html (534 words)

	Ur-Hamlet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is a record of a performance of Hamlet in 1594 in Philip Henslowe's diary and in 1596 Thomas Lodge wrote of "the ghost which cried so miserably at the theatre, like an oyster-wife, Hamlet, revenge!".
		Because Nashe apparently makes allusions to Thomas Kyd in the same passage, and because of similarities between the Shakespearean Hamlet and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, it is often posited that Kyd was the author.
		More controversial is the question of how much of Thomas Kyd's play survives in William Shakespeare's version, especially the first quarto of 1603.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ur-Hamlet (242 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Unfaithful Servant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The relationship between Kyd and the boy is very moving without ever becoming sentimental, and unlike the sanitized version often found in fiction, the boy feels real and very believable.
		Thomas refuses to accept the teen as a client because he is underage.
		Kyd still hasn't entirely got over his Vietnam days, and the 1990s were apparently lost to booze and bad memories.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1594141843 (1294 words)

	Thomas Kyd Biography / Biography of Thomas Kyd Main Biography
		The English dramatist Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) is best known for "The Spanish Tragedy," a play that was a great popular success and did much to influence the course of English tragedy of the late Renaissance.
		Thomas Kyd was the son of Francis Kyd, a scrivener, or professional scribe, of London.
		Kyd probably began his career as a popular playwright about 1583 and produced his most significant work, The Spanish Tragedy, sometime between this date and 1589.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-thomas-kyd (237 words)

	English 205 On-Line English Literature I Lecture 8
		Kyd had had enormous success several years earlier, at about the same time as Tamburlaine was produced, with a play called The Spanish Tragedy, and both Kyd and Marlowe were under the patronage of Thomas Walsingham.
		Two years after sharing the study, Thomas Kyd was arrested and questioned about his religious views; he had in his possession a pamphlet, apparently, which was considered heretical and atheistic.
		Instead of prison and torture (the sentence Kyd received), he was "commanded to give his daily attendance on their Lordships until he shall be licensed to the contrary." Marlowe's powerful friends apparently interceded in his behalf once again.
	www.lahc.cc.ca.us /english/eng205/lect8.htm (1476 words)

	Renaissance tragedy and investigator heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy we have Hieronimo taking up the role of the investigator to unravel the mystery of his son's death, and in Hamlet, Hamlet acts as an investigator to avenge his dead father.
		While the investigators in modern crime fiction choose detection as a profession, the characters of Shakespeare and Kyd are forced to become investigators by circumstances.
		Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy portrays Hieronimo as a bereaved father turned investigator after receiving a letter from Bel-imperia which reveals the identity of the murderers:
	www.english-literature.org /essays/renaissance_tragedy_investigators.html (2294 words)

	Thomas Kyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas Kyd, from Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now, Encyclopedia Britannica: A short, but well-annotated, version of Kyd's life.
		Thomas Kyd, Texas Tech University: A brief background essay about the author by graduate students Mindy Schlabach, Dustin Davis, and Jacob Allen.
		Thomas Kyd and The Spanish Tragedy, University of West Alabama: A biography of the writer that includes an assessment of his famous play.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/renaissance-authors/Kyd-Thomas.html (164 words)

	Kyd, Thomas -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As Shakespeare's first full-length tragedy, it owes much of its theme, structure, and language to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, which was a huge success in the late 1580s.
		Kyd had hit on the formula of adopting the dramaturgy of Seneca (the younger), the great Stoic philosopher and statesman, to the needs of a...
		With The Spanish Tragedy, the English playwright Thomas Kyd initiated the popular dramatic form of his day known as the revenge tragedy.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9046567 (751 words)

	§17. "The Spanish Tragedie". VII. Marlowe and Kyd. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The entry of the licence for The Spanishe tragedie of Don Horatio and Bellmipeia (Bellimperia) on 6 October, 1592, is silent; so, too, the later editions, and the notes in Henslowe of Ben Jonson’s additions in 1601 and 1602.
		It is not till we come to the casual reference by Thomas Heywood to “M. Kid” as the author 19 that what might have proved another bibliographical crux is fully determined.
		Not only are there no direct references to the great events of 1588, such as could hardly be absent from a “Spanish” tragedy—but the deliberate allusion to older conflicts with England 20 shows that the opportunity which Kyd, as a popular writer, could not have missed had not yet come.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/215/0717.html (285 words)

	Kyd,Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		KYD, THOMAS (1558-1595), Born in London in 1558, the son of Francis Kyd,...
		Thomas Kyd was born in London in 1558, the son of...
		Los Angeles PI Thomas Kyd is haunted by a crime he comitted in Vietnam involving a child.
	www.bookfizz.co.uk /k.php?qkw=Kyd,Thomas&type=s (488 words)

	Edwards, P
		Kyd was under suspicion and his rooms were searched.
		Kyd insisted they were Marlowe’s and had been shuffled in with his own papers when the two were sharing a room in 1591.
		Kyd’s interrogation seems to have include the use of torture, but he was freed.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/edwards.htm (603 words)

	Thomas Kyd: Bibliography
		The Figurative Language of the Tragedies of Shakespeare's Chief 16th Century Contemporaries: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, George Peele...
		Thomas Kyd and Early Elizabethan Tragedy, Philip Edwards.
		Thomas Kyd: Poems - An index of poetry by Kyd.
	www.poetry-archive.com /k/kyd_thomas_bibliography.html (123 words)

	The Spanish Tragedy (New Mermaids) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thomas Kyd, born a few years before Shakespeare and Marlowe, is today known for this single play.
		The prologue by the ghost of Andrea, the significant role of Revenge, and the scenes in the underworld of Roman mythology all illustrate that Thomas Kyd's dramatic style was highly influenced by the works of the Roman dramatist Seneca.
		Kyd writes, and constructs his plot, with a level of skill comparable to that of Shakespeare, who was much influenced by The Spanish Tragedy, particularly in writing Hamlet, which is possibly yet "richer", but undoubtedly less clear and focused.
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	Interview \| Timothy Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But now, writing solo once more, Harris has returned to fiction and to Thomas Kyd, who, in a new century, is still in the City of Angels -- older and sadder, if not necessarily wiser.
		Kyd was a man of the 1970s, but he spoke in a timeless, hard-boiled prose that would have been right at home in Philip Marlowe's 1930s or Lew Archer's 1960s:
		I think that when I wrote the first two Kyd books, I had a feeling that I was coming in at the collapsing end of a tradition that had lost its relevance, really, because it just felt hackneyed, or it felt very hard to do anything fresh with it.
	januarymagazine.com /profiles/tharris.html (5405 words)

	Thomas Kyd
		One of the most popular plays of the whole period covered by Shakespeare's career was The Spanish Tragedy, probably by Thomas Kyd*.
		The irony of this speech lies in part in the fact that Hieronymo is Marshal of Spain, responsible for the administration of justice in the country, yet he is unable to obtain justice for himself.
		As is so often the case with writers of the period, little is known of Kyd's life--and indeed the only way we know that his most famous play, The Spanish Tragedy, was by him is from a reference in a contemporary pamphlet.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLTnoframes/drama/kyd.html (287 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Thomas Kyd
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	EMLS 8.2 (September, 2002]: 17.1-20 Review of Lukas Erne, Beyond the Spanish Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He follows this waffling and baffling admission with another conjecture hardened into fact: "The possible loss of a similar Chorus, constituting the end of what Kyd intended to be the third act, supports this theory and would account for the odd four-act structure with an over-long third act"(66).
		But the B text was written after the turn of the century and is not by Kyd, nor is it Kydian.
		Ultimately, this is a sad book because, although the author demonstrates an energetic and informed desire to provide a new and comprehensive assessment of Kyd's career and canon and does succeed in the areas I have indicated, he is, in the main, undermined by his fascination for conjecture and speculation.
	www.shu.ac.uk /schools/cs/emls/08-2/ardorev.html (2053 words)

	KYD : eCorporations
		Jesper Kyd Productions (JKP) is a production company specializing in music and sound design for Interactive Media, Film and TV.
		Thomas Kyd (1558 - 1594) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of...
		Kyd’ s father, Francis Kyd, was a successful scrivener.
	www.ecorpscanada.ca /?Top=KYD (119 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Spanish Tragedy (New Mermaids) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This version of Kyd's work does not include the modernized spellings, etc. --This text refers to the Digital edition.
		Thomas Kyd, the author's life is as obscure as his greatest work.
		And Kyd has made masterful use of the blank verse and symbolism to lay before the reader, the emotions which his characters undergo.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393900576?v=glance (1979 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Unfaithful Servant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kyd discovers Hugo suspects his father was murdered by his mother's new husband.
		Kyd must test the limits of his own courage and humanity to save Hugo from the deadly web in which he's been caught.
		After an absence of over twenty years Timothy Harris returns with a Thomas Kyd adventure that was worth the wait.Lets hope we dont have to wait another twenty years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1594141843 (262 words)

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