Spenser, Kyd, and the Authorship of "The Spanish Tragedy"

by Frank R. Ardolino

Overview

Spenser, Kyd, and the Authorship of The Spanish Tragedy maintains that Edmund Spenser and not Thomas Kyd is the author of The Spanish Tragedy in 1590/1592.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433162626
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	07/23/2019
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frank R. Ardolino is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Hawai’i. He has published two previous books and numerous peer-reviewed articles on The Spanish Tragedy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Introduction – 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 Works and The Spanish Tragedy – Epilogue – Index.