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Thomas Kyd

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Noun1.Thomas Kyd - English dramatist (1558-1594)


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Four scenes in the play matched with the language in Shakespeare's earlier works but the remaining had nearly 200 matches with works of Thomas Kyd, best known for The Spanish Tragedy.
This Christian Stoic position is one also taken by the Academic Skeptics and, among the Pembroke dramatists, pursued by Greville in his late verse and by Thomas Kyd in The Spanish Tragedy (although the idea is too common to Protestant thinking for a shared belief in it to have special significance, it is worth noting that Philip Sidney expresses the same idea in his Defence of Poesy).
Thomas Kyd, the playwright of genius who wrote The Spanish Tragedy and shared a room in Shoreditch with Marlowe, reported under torture that blasphemous pages discovered in his possession actually belonged to Marlowe.
 
 
 
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