The Spanish Tragedy (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
The Spanish Tragedy (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author: Thomas Kyd

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0393614808

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Thomas Kyd’s highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition. The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements—a play-within-a-play and a ghost bent on revenge—are widely believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Kyd’s likely sources (Virgil, Jacques Yver, and the anonymous “The Earl of Leicester Betrays His Own Servant”), Thomas Nashe’s satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the play’s initial reception. “Criticism” is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of the play’s major themes. Contributors include Michael Hattaway, Jonas A. Barish, Donna B. Hamilton, G. K. Hunter, Lorna Hutson, Molly Smith, J. R. Mulryne, T. McAlindon, and Andrew Sofer. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Drama of the English Republic, 1649-60
Drama of the English Republic, 1649-60

Author: Janet Clare

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780719044823

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Presents a collection of five dramatic works originally published when English was nominally a Republic. The five texts, three of which have been edited for the first time, include The Tragedy of that Famous Roman Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (Anonymous), Cupid and Death by James Shirley; and William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes, The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, and The History of Sir Francis Drake. In her introductory piece, editor Janet Clare (English, University College, Dublin, UK) argues that theater forced into a novel state of opposition did more than survive in reduced form; it adapted, offered oblique critiques of Caroline policies, and revealed complex and shifting alliances. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Induction in Elizabethan Drama
The Induction in Elizabethan Drama

Author: Thelma N. Greenfield

Publisher: University of Oregon Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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"The Induction in Elizabethan Drama studies with some sympathy the Elizabethan dramatist's use of a device that often takes particular cognizance of the audience and that, in a modern sense, may violate dramatic illusion. For convenience, Dr. Greenfield has used the Elizabethan term induction to cover the separate dramatic materials sometimes employed to launch the play proper.".

Fortune
Fortune

Author: Folger Shakespeare Library

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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The phrase "all is but Fortune" (The Tempest 5.1) expresses both the hope and the resignation that characterize the Renaissance attitude to Fortune that is illustrated and discussed here. Throughout the medieval centuries, the fickle goddess survived in all sorts of literary and artistic sources, ready to be appropriated in traditional as well as innovative ways by the artists and writers of early modern Europe. Political thinkers like Machiavelli invoked her, as did physicians, playwrights, printers, painters, pamphleteers, even philosophers. This book explores the vast array of allusions to Fortune embedded in the Folger Shakespeare Library's books and manuscripts. Representations of Fortune from classical antiquity to the late Renaissance in England and on the Continent are the main focus. In the evolution of the depiction of Fortune over this period of time it is possible to see how the idea itself changes. The idea that Fortune can be controlled is an important aspect of this study since it is an idea found not only in illustrations but in literature as well. Indeed, Fortune is a central element of many plays, poems, and prose works throughout the Renaissance, which the Folger Library's wide collection makes it possible to bring together here.

The Tragedie of Solimon and Perseda
The Tragedie of Solimon and Perseda

Author: Thomas Kyd

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781332915897

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