The Spanish Tragedy: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

The Spanish Tragedy: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0393934004
ISBN-13:
9780393934007
Pub. Date:
09/25/2013
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0393934004
ISBN-13:
9780393934007
Pub. Date:
09/25/2013
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
The Spanish Tragedy: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

The Spanish Tragedy: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1

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Overview

Thomas Kyd’s highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition.

The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers.

The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements—a play-within-a-play and a ghost bent on revenge—are widely believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Kyd’s likely sources (Virgil, Jacques Yver, and the anonymous “The Earl of Leicester Betrays His Own Servant”), Thomas Nashe’s satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the play’s initial reception.

“Criticism” is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of the play’s major themes. Contributors include Michael Hattaway, Jonas A. Barish, Donna B. Hamilton, G. K. Hunter, Lorna Hutson, Molly Smith, J. R. Mulryne, T. McAlindon, and Andrew Sofer.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393934007
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 09/25/2013
Series: Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 598,388
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland and Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy and Putting History to the Question. His editions include Antony and Cleopatra and Othello for the Oxford Shakespeare, Middleton’s The Changeling for New Mermaids, and Massinger’s The Renegado for Arden Early Modern Drama.
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