Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594
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Name (Hebrew)
קיד, תומאס, 1558-1594
Name (Latin)
Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594
Name (Arabic)
كيد، توماس، 1558-1594
Other forms of name
Kid, Thomas, 1558-1594
Date of birth
1558
Date of death
1594
Occupation
Dramatists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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MARC
Sources of Information
- Encyclopædia Britannica, via WWW, September 19, 2016(Thomas Kyd, English Dramatist; Thomas Kyd, (baptized Nov. 6, 1558, London, Eng--died c. December 1594, London) English dramatist who, with his The Spanish Tragedy (sometimes called Hieronimo, or Jeronimo, after its protagonist), initiated the revenge tragedy of his day; the son of a scrivener, Kyd was educated at the Merchant Taylors School in London.; he seems to have been in service for some years with a lord (possibly Ferdinando, Lord Strange, the patron of Lord Strange's Men); The Spanish Tragedy was entered in the Stationers' Register in October 1592, and the undated first quarto edition almost certainly appeared in that year; the only other play certainly by Kyd is Cornelia (1594), an essay in Senecan tragedy, translated from the French of Robert Garnier's academic Cornélie; he may also have written an earlier version of Hamlet, known to scholars as the Ur-Hamlet, and his hand has sometimes been detected in the anonymous Arden of Feversham, one of the first domestic tragedies, and in a number of other plays; about 1591 Kyd was sharing lodgings with Christopher Marlowe, and on May 13, 1593, he was arrested and then tortured, being suspected of treasonable activity; his room had been searched and certain "atheistical" disputations denying the deity of Jesus Christ found there; he probably averred then and certainly confirmed later, in a letter, that these papers had belonged to Marlowe; that letter is the source for almost everything that is known about Kyd's life; he was dead by Dec. 30, 1594, when his mother made a formal repudiation of her son's debt-ridden estate)
- Wikipedia, September 19, 2016(Thomas Kyd; Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama; he was the son of Francis and Anna Kyd and was baptised in the church of St Mary Woolnoth in the Ward of Langborn, Lombard Street, London; in October 1565 the young Kyd was enrolled in the newly founded Merchant Taylors' School, whose headmaster was Richard Mulcaster; fellow students included Edmund Spenser and Thomas Lodge; evidence suggests that in the 1580s Kyd became an important playwright, but little is known about his activity; The Spanish Tragedie was probably written in the mid to late 1580s; other works by Kyd are his translations of Torquato Tasso's Padre di Famiglia, published as The Householder's Philosophy (1588); and Robert Garnier's Cornelia (1594); plays attributed in whole or in part to Kyd include Soliman and Perseda, King Leir, Arden of Feversham and Edward III; Kyd is more generally accepted to have been the author of a Hamlet, the precursor of the Shakespearean play (Ur-Hamlet); some poems by Kyd exist, but it seems that most of his work is lost or unidentified; he is also the presumed author of a pamphlet in prose entitled The Murder of John Brewen (1592); the last we hear from the playwright is the publication of Cornelia early in 1594; Kyd died later that year at the age of 35, and was buried on 15 August in St Mary Colechurch in London; in December of that same year, Kyd's mother legally renounced the administration of his estate, probably because it was debt-ridden; St Mary Colechurch was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt; thus Thomas Kyd's grave was lost to posterity)
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Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama. Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Thomas Heywood, in his Apologie for Actors (1612) attributed the play to Kyd. A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play before Shakespeare's, which is now known as the Ur-Hamlet.
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