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The Spanish tragedy : authoritative text , sources and contexts, criticism / Thomas Kyd ; edited by Michael Neill, University of Kent

Author
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594
Published
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xl, 289 pages ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators
Neill, Michael, 1942-

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Contents
Introduction -- The text of The Spanish tragedy -- Contexts. Sources and biography. [Aeneas in the underworld] / Virgil ; [Soliman and Perseda] / Jacques Yver ; [The Earl of Leicester betrays his own servant] / Anonymous ; [Satiric criticism of Kyd] / Thomas Nashe -- Revenge. From An exhortation concerning good order and obedience to rulers and magistrates ; From Of cruelty and from Cowardice, the mother of cruelty / Michel de Montaigne ; Of revenge / Francis Bacon -- Contemporary reception. [The ballad of The Spanish tragedy] / Anonymous -- Criticism. Stagecraft. From The Spanish tragedy: architectonic design / Michael Hattaway ; The language of the play. From The Spanish tragedy, or The pleasures and perils of rhetoric / Jonas A. Barish ; Metadramatic readings. From The Spanish tragedy: a speaking picture / Donna B. Hamilton ; Justice and revenge. From Ironies of justice in The Spanish tragedy / G.K. Hunter ; From Hieronimo, justice and dramatist / Lorna Hutson ; Violence and death. From The theater and the scaffold: death as spectacle in The Spanish tragedy / Molly Smith ; Politics and subversion. From Nationality and language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish tragedy / J.R. Mulryne ; The play of opposites. From Thomas Kyd: The Spanish tragedy / T. McAlindon ; Iconography. From Absorbing interests: Kyd's bloody handkerchief as palimpsest / Andrew Sofer.
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ISBN
9780393934007 (pbk.)
0393934004 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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