Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd 1558-94

1. Probably was born in London
2. Kyd did not attend university**
3. Imprisoned for blasphemy, his papers were found ahuffled with some of Marlowe’s.
4. One surviving play: The Spanish Tragedy or Hironimo is Mad Again,  1585, senecan style, revenge tragedy, focuses on murder and revenge
   1. written between 1582-1589
   2. the first example of a revenge tragedy, a type of play which became extremely popular in Elizabethan age.
   3. The central motif of the play is the revenge of Hironima, Marshal of the Spain for the murder of his son  Horatio. Horatio, in love with the beautiful Belimperia, was murdered by Prince of Portugal and by Belimperia’s brother Lorenzo, who wanted her to marry the Prince.
5. Cornelia 1593
   1. a translation from the French Senecan, Garnier
6. His translation of Torquato Tasso’s Padre di Famigila, published as The Householder’s Philosophy – 1588

1. Soliman and Perseda 1588
2. First part of Jeronimo 1592