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(1558-94)English Renaissance playwright. Author of The Spanish Tragedy, an exceptionally popular play on the Elizabethan stage. The Spanish Tragedy was one of Shakespeare's sources for Hamlet and is an early example of revenge tragedy.

Resources in This Category

• Bartleby.com: Kyd References

  http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html
  T.S. Eliot's essay on Hamlet from "The Sacred Wood" touches upon Kyd and "The Spanish Tragedy."

• Imagi-nation: Thomas Kyd

  http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc25.html
  Biography plus links to all of his works currently in print.

• Legends: Shakespeare's Stories: Hamlet

  http://bestoflegends.org/shakespeare/hamlet.html
  Briefly discusses The Spanish Tragedy as a source for Hamlet.

• Renaissance Tragedy

  http://www.english-literature.org/essays/renaissance_tragedy_investigators.php
  Comparative essay of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.

 

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