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First Part of Hieronimo and the Spanish Tragedy
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186 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1976
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Thomas Kyd
67 books61 followersThomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins (an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors (1612). A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's.
Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins (an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors (1612). A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's.
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September 4, 2016
The First Part of Hieronimo - 8/30
The Spanish Tragedy - 8/31
In the first part, Hieronimo's short stature is emphasized at several points, making him seem almost a dwarf. This is not mentioned in Tragedy even in such relevant contexts as his cutting down the hung body of Horatio.
In the play-within-a-play, the spectators take as simulation acts which are performed in actuality, making it closer to the inner play in A Mad World, My Masters than that of Hamlet.
The rhetoric seems insatntly old fashioned, its rhythms more familiar through parodies like “A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe. Very tragical mirth.” The depicted world of all-against-all is, though, timeless, and as one of, if not the first "revenge drama", Tragedy almost literally set the stage for Hamlet and any number of successors into the 2oth century and probably beyond.
The Spanish Tragedy - 8/31
In the first part, Hieronimo's short stature is emphasized at several points, making him seem almost a dwarf. This is not mentioned in Tragedy even in such relevant contexts as his cutting down the hung body of Horatio.
In the play-within-a-play, the spectators take as simulation acts which are performed in actuality, making it closer to the inner play in A Mad World, My Masters than that of Hamlet.
The rhetoric seems insatntly old fashioned, its rhythms more familiar through parodies like “A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe. Very tragical mirth.” The depicted world of all-against-all is, though, timeless, and as one of, if not the first "revenge drama", Tragedy almost literally set the stage for Hamlet and any number of successors into the 2oth century and probably beyond.
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