Doing Kyd: Essays on The Spanish Tragedy
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University of Worcester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- Cinpoes_01
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-7190-8382-2
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Research group(s)
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B - Early Modern Research Group
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- Additional information
- Edited and introduced by Cinpoeş, Doing Kyd is an essential resource on Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, with chapters on major critical themes such as genre, editing, history, and theatre, and a comprehensive Introduction and Bibliography, to support both research and teaching. The volume offers a timely and comprehensive re-assessment of the play and its impact: from being the blockbuster of the 1590s; to its ground-breaking impact on the revenge plays of early modern dramatists such as Shakespeare and Webster; to its continental success in translations and adaptations during the seventeenth century; its complete absence during the Restoration period; its twentieth-century resurrection in print editions and stage productions; and finally, its twenty-first century revival in criticism, editing, stage, classroom and online. The merits of the collection, according to one reviewer, are: ‘its breadth, its attention to The Spanish Tragedy’s stage lives, and its willingness to revisit past interpretations’ (Early Theatre 20.1 [2017], 161-64: http://dx.doi.org/10.12745/et.20-1.3170 ). The Introduction positions Kyd’s play ‘at the forefront’ of discussions surrounding early modern ‘stage practice, the emergence of the revenge genre in England, authorship, collaborative playwriting and the (re)distribution and attribution of plays from the period’ (p. 4). The play’s recent return on UK stages is analysed as symptomatic of the revenge genre’s resonances with recent politics (national, gender, war) – an aspect shared with Shakespeare’s Titus (which Cinpoeş argues in her later work). The comprehensive Bibliography (1993 to 2013) captures the renewed interest in Kyd, especially in tracing the stage and digital life of the Tragedy, and identifies yet unpublished material. This resource builds on Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez’s 1966-1992 bibliography, cataloguing the diversity of current practices (editorial, critical, performance-related, and digital). High sales since 2016 led to re-publication of the volume in paperback and e-book formats by 2018. See another review at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0184767818821603d
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