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1.
Apocalypse & Armada in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy
Contributors:
Publisher:
Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers 1995
Subjects:
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594. Spanish Tragedy
Protestantism in Literature
Reformation in Literature
Armada, 1588, in Literature
Revenge in Literature
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...xxv.In contrast to Edwards' dismissal of Kyd's historical accuracy, ArthurFreeman argues that Kyd is concerned with paralleling the play with...s historical pageants.Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd, Facts and Problems (Oxford: Oxford...
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Induction to Tragedy: A Study in a Development of Form in Gorboduc, the Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus
Contributors:
Publisher:
Louisiana State University Press 1939
Subjects:
Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584. Gorboduc
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594. Spanish Tragedy
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Titus Andronicus
English Drama (Tragedy)--History and Criticism
English Drama--Early Modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and Criticism
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...PART I11.It is a commonplace that Thomas Kyd, in his SpanishTragedy, established...and the ghost. These features of Kyd'sdrama, together with the five acts...We have already seen something of Kyd's rhetoric,and shall touch upon...
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The Spanish Comedy, or the First Part of Hieronimo: And the Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo Is Mad Again
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 1967
Subjects:
Drama
English drama (Tragedy)
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IntroductionLIFEThomas Kyd, son of Francis Kyd, scrivener, and his wife Agnesor...been con­temporary with Thomas Lodge. Although scraps of Cambridge...See F. S. Boas, The Works of Thomas Kyd (Oxford, 1901)...
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The Spanish Tragedy: A Play
Contributors:
Publisher:
J. M. Dent 1898
Subjects:
Drama
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...whatan important historical place Kyd holds in the English drama...parentage. His father was Francis Kyd, scrivener,writer of the Court...City,in which church the boy Thomas was baptized. We seethat the...almost to a certainty,Agnes Kyd: we know at least that Francis...
5.
Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1996
Subjects:
Middleton, Thomas, D. 1627--Political and Social Views
Politics and Literature--England--History--17th Century
Literature and Society--England--History--17th Century
Political Plays, English--History and Criticism
Social Problems in Literature
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...1925-52) [for references to all Jonson's works, includingcollaborations].KYD, THOMAS, The Works of Thomas Kyd, ed.Frederick S. Boas (Oxford, 1901).LYLY, JOHN, The Complete Works of John Lyly...
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Thomas Lodge
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cornell University Press 1935
Subjects:
Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625
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...dedicated his re­vised edition of Seneca to Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk,whose first wife had...Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir EdwardHoby, Thomas Kyd, George Peele, Thomas Nashe, JohnLyly, and a whole roll of names famous...
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Thomas Lodge: The History of an Elizabethan
Contributors:
Publisher:
Yale University Press 1931
Subjects:
Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625
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members of this company, occurs the name of Thomas Lud­dington. Thomas Luddington was Lodge's cousin, son of LadyAnne...Boas gives the date as 1585 (Works of Thomas Kyd [Oxford, 1901],p. xxix)...
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Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft; Liber Amoris; Characteristics
Contributors:
Publisher:
J. M. Dent 1902
Subjects:
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Liber Amoris
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Characteristics
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...Governmentwas directed against Thomas Hardy: in his fate seemed involvedthe...notice.'The KING against THOMAS HARDY, and others.'I am...Crown,29th Nov. 1794.'To Thomas Holcroft,one of the defendants...December 1st, Mr. Bonney, Mr. Kyd, Mr. Joyce,and Mr. Holcroft...
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Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion
Contributors:
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press 1980
Subjects:
Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism And Interpretation
Arts In Literature
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...almost always has precedents inthe works of Webster, Tourneur, Kyd, Ford, and Shakespeare.When Duke Angelo chortles over the...out of an informer's tongue by Ercolerecalls similar acts in Kyd Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare TitusAndronicus. The impaling...
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Eccentric & Poet
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Publisher:
Covici, Friede 1928
Subjects:
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849
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...set at rhetorical hurdles belongs but to oneperiod. At the same time he is no more imitative thanShakespeare is imitative of Kyd. He steeped himself in thatliterature, he was sufficiently contemptuous of his ownperiod to pass it completely by, and the...
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