Beyond the Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd - Couverture rigide

Erne, Lukas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719060931 ISBN 13 : 9780719060939

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries came about. Called 'an extraordinary dramatic … genius' by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Kyd invented the revenge tragedy genre that culminated in Shakespeare's Hamlet some twelve years later.

In this study, The Spanish Tragedy – the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage – receives the extensive scholarly and critical treatment it deserves, including a full reception and modern stage history. Yet as Erne shows, Thomas Kyd is much more than the author of a single masterpiece. Don Horatio (partly extant in The First Part of Hieronimo), the lost early Hamlet, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia all belong to what emerges in this work as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.

This groundbreaking study is now in paperback.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lukas Erne is Professor of English in the Département d'anglais, Université de Genève

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719060931
• ISBN 13: 9780719060939
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible