Thomas Kid and the Spanish Tragedy

<p><span>Episode 105:</span></p><p>The life of Thomas Kyd, including a word on Elizabethan schooling.</p><p>Thomas Nashe on Kyd.</p><p>Kyd and the London playwright set.</p><p>Kyd and Lord Strange.</p><p>Questions over the first performances of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’.</p><p>Is ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ a sequel?</p><p>Cornelia, Kyd’s other surviving play.</p><p>The Ur-Hamlet and other plays and collaborations.</p><p>Kyd and Marlowe.</p><p>The publication of the ‘The Spanish Tragedy’</p><p>A synopsis of ‘The Spanish Tragedy’</p><p>The power of the plotting of the story.</p><p>Similarities to ‘Hamlet’.</p><p>The weaknesses of Kyd’s verse.</p><p>The strengths of Kyd’s visual and dramatic settings.</p><p>The body strewn stage at the end of the play.</p><p>Why Kyd is no Shakespeare.</p><p>The significance of ghost of Andreas and the personification of Revenge.</p><p>The role of Bel-Imperia and the growing impact of female characters of stage.</p><p>The morality of revenge debate.</p><p>Kyd as the father of ‘revenge tragedy’.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Support the podcast at:</p><p>www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com</p><p>www.ko-fi.com/thoetp</p><p>www.patreon.com/thoetp</p><br/><br/>This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: <br/><br/>Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy