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Hace 3 días · Others still resort to the literary artifice of historia fingida or “feigned history” to rewrite such landmark European setbacks as the historical fall of Rhodes to the Ottomans in 1522 as a Christian victory in Thomas Kyd’s Soliman and Perseda (1589). 1 At times, they even cast back their London popular audiences as medieval Crusaders conquering Jerusalem in Thomas Heywood’s The Four ...
Hace 22 horas · Cabe imaginar que algunos de los elementos nuevos fuesen introducidos por aquel drama designado por los críticos, con prefijo alemán, Ur-Hamlet, o sea, ‘Hamlet primitivo’: así la muerte del protagonista, el espectro del padre, la escena del drama dentro del drama y el duelo final con Laertes, elementos que hacen pensar en Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) como autor de esta obra hoy perdida.
Hace 22 horas · As for Shakespeare being “the poet of the established order,” it is certainly true that he was extremely adept in his navigation of a treacherous political landscape in which his greatest predecessor, Christopher Marlowe, was most probably murdered by the state and another fellow dramatist Thomas Kyd died after torture.
Hace 2 días · Some scholars believe the idea was first employed by Thomas Kyd in his play The Spanish Tragedy in 1587. However, Skakespeare popularized it, using the “mise en abyme” device in dozens of his plays. Whether you’re a classic literature reader or lover of the theater, ...
Hace 1 día · Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against invasion by Ottoman Turks. He had recently married Desdemona, a beautiful and wealthy Venetian lady younger than himself, without the knowledge of and despite the later objection of her father.
Hace 2 días · Shakespeare signed his last will and testament on 25 March 1616; the following day, Thomas Quiney, his new son-in-law, was found guilty of fathering an illegitimate son by Margaret Wheeler, both of whom had died during childbirth.
Hace 3 días · Answer: Thomas Kyd Therein hangs a tale. When the Inquisition came poking around (investigating heresy), poor Kyd ended up suffering a torture that left him a broken man.
