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Article: Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd.(Book Review)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2006
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Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd, by Lukas Erne. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, Pp. xix + 252. Cloth $74.95.
Without risking overstatement, we can say with reasonable certainty that Thomas Kyd was the author of one extraordinarily generative play. (1) Within a decade and a half of its initial appearance, The Spanish Tragedy had been produced and performed, prefaced, and parodied, printed and reprinted, amended and printed again. All the while, the play was inspiring Kyd's better-known contemporaries, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, along with a host of lesser dramatic lights, who freely cribbed lines ...