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The Spanish Tragedy: A Norton Critical Edition
Thomas Kyd
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Description for The Spanish Tragedy: A Norton Critical Edition
Paperback. Thomas Kyd's highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Neill, Michael. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers.
The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements—a play-within-a-play and a ghost bent on revenge—are widely believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Kyd’s likely sources (Virgil, Jacques Yver, and the anonymous “The Earl of Leicester Betrays His Own Servant”), Thomas Nashe’s satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the ... Read more
The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers.
The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements—a play-within-a-play and a ghost bent on revenge—are widely believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Kyd’s likely sources (Virgil, Jacques Yver, and the anonymous “The Earl of Leicester Betrays His Own Servant”), Thomas Nashe’s satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393934007
SKU
V9780393934007
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About Thomas Kyd
Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland and Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy and Putting History to the Question. His editions include Antony and Cleopatra and Othello for the Oxford Shakespeare, Middleton’s The Changeling for ... Read more
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