Thomas Kyd: fragments of a life
Searching for traces of one of the first great Elizabethan playwrights
The life and work of the Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Kyd offer a perfect example of the problems posed by the erosion of evidence over time, since what little we do know seems wholly arbitrary in its survival, yet also hints at the enormity of what we have lost.
Kyd, a prosperous scrivener’s son whose family hailed from the area around Lombard Street, w…
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