The Works Of Thomas Kyd Frederick S. Boas

1901 Clarendon Press (Oxford, England), 5 7/8 x 9 inches tall pale green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt design and lettereing to spine, illustrated with folding facsimile frontispiece and facsimiles of antiquarian title pages, index, cxvi, 470 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping to all four tips. Prior owner pencil notations to blank front free-endpaper and neat pencil marginalia to about a dozen pages - all easily erased. Otherwise, a very good copy of a scarce and important title. ~SP14~ [3.0P] The collected works of English playwright Thomas Kyd (1558-1594), the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama. Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Thomas Heywood, in his Apologie for Actors (1612), attributed the play to Kyd. A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's, which is now known as the Ur-Hamlet. Contents: Introduction; Supplementary documents (Kyd's letter to Sir John Puckering, Fragments of a theological disputation [by Marlowe], Baines' note of accusation against Marlowe); The Spanish tragedie; Cornelia; Soliman and Perseda; The hovsholders philosophie; The mvrder of Iohn Brewen; Fragments of Kyd's lost works; The first part of Ieronimo; Appendix I: Verses of prayse and ioye. II: The Spanish tragedy: a ballad. III: Tragedia von dem griegischen keyser zu Constantinopel [by Jacob Ayrer]; Notes; Index.