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.

The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy

Author: Thomas Kyd

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 3752381388

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Reproduction of the original: The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

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.

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

Author: Ingo Berensmeyer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 1003

ISBN-13: 3110436086

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This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

Doing Kyd
Doing Kyd

Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1526108941

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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster and Ford. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this collection is crucial in two respects: firstly, it has a wide spectrum, addressing readers with interests in the play from its early impact as the first sixteenth-century revenge tragedy, to its afterlife in print, on the stage, in screen adaptation and bibliographical studies. Secondly, the collection appears at a time when Kyd and his play are back in the spotlight, through renewed critical interest, several new stage productions between 2009 and 2013, and its firm presence in higher-education curriculum for English and drama.

Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture
Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture

Author: Matthew Dimmock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107032911

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This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.

Dramatic Geography
Dramatic Geography

Author: Laurence Publicover

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0198806817

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Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, the volume explores the ways in which early modern plays stage dramatic geography and how this has shaped literary and theatrical heritage.

Three Romances of Eastern Conquest
Three Romances of Eastern Conquest

Author: Ladan Niayesh

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780719078576

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This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition.