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Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, writer, and literary translator. Born in London in 1558, he was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. His most notable work is *The Spanish Tragedy*. Other works attributed to him include *Cornelia*, *The True Chronicle History of King Leir*, and *Blood is a Beggar*. He wrote in the English language.
Kyd died in London in 1594 and was buried there. His writings have been described in sources such as the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1558
- Died
- 1594
- Works
- 69
Top works
- Cornelia
- The Spanish tragedy, or Hieronimo is mad again
- The True Chronicle History of King Leir. 1605
- Spanish Tragedy (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Blood is a Beggar
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
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- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,306x
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Quotes
- “Evil news fly faster still than good.”
- “In time the savage bull sustains the yoke,In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure,In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.”
- “Where words prevail not, violence prevails; But gold doth more than either of them both.”
- “What outcries pluck me from my naked bedAnd chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear.”
- “Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears;Oh life, no life, but lively form of death;Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs,Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds.”
- “Thus must we toil in other men's extremes,That know not how to remedy our own.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- literary translator
- Educated at
- Merchant Taylors' School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Spanish Tragedy
- Image
- Kyd-SpanishTragedie-title.JPG
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- Commons category
- Thomas Kyd
- date of birth
- 1558-00-00
- date of death
- 1594-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- place of burial
- London
- date of baptism
- 1558-11-06
- writing language
- English language
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Kyd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.