Doing Kyd

Essays on The Spanish Tragedy
Herausgeber: Cinpoes, Nicoleta

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083822
• ISBN-10: 0719083826
• Artikelnr.: 42790232

Autorenporträt

Nicoleta Cinpoes is Senior Lecturer in English - Shakespeare at the University of Worcester

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Nicoleta Cinpoes Introduction: Supernatural structures in Kyd and Shakespeare
Philip Edwards Part I: 'Vindicta mihi' 1. Enacting revenge
Jonathan Bate 2. Vindicating revenge
Evghenii Musica 3. Gendering revenge
Kristine Steenbergh Part II: The Spanish Tragedy in print 4. 'Undoing Kyd': the texts of The Spanish Tragedy
Simon Barker 5. Editing The Spanish Tragedy
Jesús Tronch Part III: 'Chronicles of Spain' or Tales of Albion? 6. How Spanish is The Spanish Tragedy? Dynastic policy and colonial expansion in revenge tragedy
Clara Calvo 7. Kyd's Use of Antonio Pérez' Las Relaciones in The Spanish Tragedy
Frank Ardolino 8. The Spanish Tragedy and its continental contexts
Ton Hoenselaars and Helmer Helmers Part IV: Doing Kyd 9. Staging Babel: The Spanish Tragedy in performance
Tony Howard 10. Hieronimo still mad: why adapt The Spanish Tragedy today?
Tod Davies Part V: Thomas Kyd bibliography 1993
2013
Nicoleta Cinpoes Afterword: 'What is a play without a woman in it?'
Carol Chillington Rutter Contributors Index