Kyd, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...profession for a few years. In the 1580s he began writing plays. His literary fame rests on The Spanish Tragedy (c.1586...scholars to be the author of an earlier version of Hamlet, which Shakespeare used as the basis of his play. In 1593, Kyd was accused of holding unorthodox religious...