Doing Kyd by Nicoleta Cinpoes
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, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster and Ford. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this collection is crucial in two respects: firstly, it has a wide spectrum, addressing readers with interests in the play from its early impact as the first sixteenth-century revenge tragedy, to its afterlife in print, on the stage, in screen adaptation and bibliographical studies. Secondly, the collection appears at a time when Kyd and his play are back in the spotlight, through renewed critical interest, several new stage productions between 2009 and 2013, and its firm presence in higher-education curriculum for English and drama.-
Three Renaissance Travel Plays
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Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly
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Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance
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Sejanus
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Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays
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Drama of the English Republic, 1649–1660
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Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
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Massacres in Early Modern Drama
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Richard Brome
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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments
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Three Romances of Eastern Conquest
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John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship
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Three Renaissance Usury Plays
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The works of Richard Edwards
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Beyond The Spanish Tragedy
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Three sixteenth-century dietaries
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Marlowe and the Popular Tradition
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Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance
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John Fletcher's Rome
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Documents of the Rose Playhouse (Revised EDN)
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The Stukeley Plays
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Doctor Faustus
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Sound Effects
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Playhouse Wills
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Bussy d'Ambois
'Thomas Kyd's oft-taught revenge play The Spanish Tragedy engages with issues resonant in our time: authoritarianism, economic and social inequality, global ization, and the seeming impossibility of worldly justiceThough this collection emerged from a 2006 workshop at the University of Warwick and seems to have had a long gestation, its publication is well-timed for the current political moment.' Early Theatre 20.1, Marianne Montgomery, East Carolina University 'This valuable compendium, which revisits the critical reception of a landmark play and confirms its relevance for modern-day audiences, concludes with Cinpoes's comprehensive bibliography of Kyd studies from 1993 to 2013 as well as an index.' Dana E. Aspinall, Alma College, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies XX (X) -- .
Nicoleta Cinpoes is Senior Lecturer in English – Shakespeare at the University of Worcester
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526127150 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526127156 |
| Title | Doing Kyd |
| Author | Nicoleta Cinpoes |
| Series | Revels Plays Companion Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2018-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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