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Creator
Date
[2019]
Location
New York, NY
New York (State)
New York (State)
Media format
Printed text
Extent
x, 194 pages
Language
English
Size
23 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 366857
Folger holdings ID: 514911
Folger holdings ID: 514911
Summary
"This book maintains that Edmund Spenser and not Thomas Kyd is the author of The Spanish Tragedy in 1590/1592. My argument is based on the strength of the internal evidence and not on computermetric, linguistic statistics, or parallel passages. The Spanish Tragedy and Spenser's works are united by sources, themes, methods, and language to the point of authorial equation. Thomas Heywood provided the only attribution of the play to Kyd in 1612, but given the depth of the learning, the apocalyptic context of the anti-Spanish theme, and the literary, rhetorical, and metadramatic sophistication of The Spanish Tragedy, it is much more probable that Spenser wrote it and not the nearly anonymous journeyman writer Kyd. Throughout the book for purposes of argument and clarity, I refer to Kyd as the author of The Spanish Tragedy. However, at the conclusion, I replace Kyd with Spenser as the author based on the evidence presented"--
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Part I: Apuleius, Kyd, and Spenser. The influence of Apuleius on Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy -- Comparison of the incertitude of Apuleius's The Golden Ass and The Spanish Tragedy -- Apuleius and Spenser: mystery contexts and games of authorship -- Part II: Kyd, Spenser, and dramatic methods, rhetoric, and apocalypse and Armada. Comparison of Spenser's dramatic methods and rhetoric in his canon with Kyd's methods and rhetoric in The Spanish Tragedy -- Empedocles, just revenge, veritas filia temporis, and textual silence in the Faerie Queene and The Spanish Tragedy -- Apocalypse and armada in Spenser's canon and The Spanish Tragedy
Also known as
Extended title: Spenser, Kyd, and the authorship of "The Spanish Tragedy" / Frank R. Ardolino
Subjects
Related names
author: Ardolino, Frank R., 1941-
subject: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
subject: Apuleius
subject: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
subject: Apuleius