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Spanish Tragedy

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ISBN-10: 0393934004

ISBN-13: 9780393934007

Edition: 2013

Authors: Thomas Kyd, Michael Neill

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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, Michael de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the play’s initial…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.40" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland and Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy and Putting History to the Question. His editions include Antony and Cleopatra and Othello for the Oxford Shakespeare, Middleton's The Changeling for New Mermaids, and Massinger's The Renegado for Arden Early Modern Drama.