Soliman and Perseda, by Thomas Kyd
Soliman and Perseda, by Thomas Kyd

Author: Lukas Erne

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2014-12-24

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780719095856

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Soliman and Perseda, written c. 1588 and first published in 1592 or 1593, is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus, and the fortunes of the comic servant Piston and the braggart knight Basilisco, against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. The introduction to this facsimile edition contains the fullest analysis of the text to date. It also provides an account of the play's editorial history, a detailed analysis of its original printing, and lists of all erroneous readings in the first quarto, together with significant differences between the first and second quartos. This edition provides the best access we have to an important play by one of Shakespeare's leading early contemporaries.

The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda
The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda

Author: John Murray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0429575947

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Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. This volume contains the original text along with textual and critical notes.

Material and Symbolic Circulation Between Spain and England, 1554-1604
Material and Symbolic Circulation Between Spain and England, 1554-1604

Author: Anne J. Cruz

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780754662150

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Through analyses of the modes of exchange of material goods between early modern England and Spain, and the circulation of symbolic systems of meaning, the contributors to the anthology -historians and literary critics- investigate the two nations' points of contact and conflict during these historically crucial fifty years. The essays demonstrate and problematize, from the perspective of Spanish cultural history, the significant material, cultural, and symbolic contacts between the two countries.

Beyond "The Spanish Tragedy"
Beyond

Author: Lukas Erne

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780719060939

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This is the first book in more than thirty years on the playwright who is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, The Spanish Tragedy - the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage - receives the extensive scholarly and criticaltreatment 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 whatemerges in this study for the first time as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.