• Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important...
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  • Tourneur, now ascribed to Thomas Middleton. As established through the precedent of early English playwrights like Thomas Kyd, a good revenge play must...
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    The Spanish Tragedy (category Plays by Thomas Kyd)
    Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The...
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  • (1746–1793), British botanist Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), English dramatist Warren Kyd (born 1939), New Zealand politician William Kyd (fl. 1430–1453), English...
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    Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes included...
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    earlier play—now lost—known today as the Ur-Hamlet. Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or by Shakespeare, the Ur-Hamlet would have existed by 1589, and would...
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    Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Hooker, Ben Jonson, Philip Sidney and Thomas Kyd. Elizabeth I presided over a vigorous culture that saw notable accomplishments...
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    were given by Thomas Kyd after his imprisonment and possible torture (see above); Kyd and Baines connect Marlowe with mathematician Thomas Harriot's and...
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    Jacobean verse drama; witness his allusions to Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd in The Waste Land. In a 1933 lecture he said "Every...
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    plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre. Their plays blended the...
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