Author Series 18 - Thomas Kyd

Author Series 18

Thomas Kyd

* 1558-1594

* English playwright and the author of The Spanish Tragedy or Hieronimo is Mad Again

 * His fellow students were Edmund Spenser and Thomas Lodge.

* There is no evidence that Kyd attended any of the university.

* Thomas Heywood called him “Famous Kyd.”

* The full title of The Spanish Tragedy is: “Spanish tragedies, containing the lamentable end of Don Haratio, and Bel-Imperia: With the pitiful death of old Hieronimo”

* Plays attributed to Kyd in whole or in part includes Soliman and Perseda, King Leir, Arden of Feversham and Edward III.

 

* He is also presumed author of a pamphlet in the prose entitled The Murder of John Brewen (1592).

Major Works

•  Don Horatio (partially extant in The First Part of Hieronimo, c. 1586)

•  The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587)

•  The Householder's Philosophy (translation, 1588)

•  Arden of Faversham (attributed, 1592)

•  Soliman and Perseda (attributed, c. 1593)

•  Cornelia (translation of Robert Garnier, 1594)

•  King Leir (attributed, 1594)