Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Thomas Kyd: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Spanish Tragedy
Appendix A: Additional Passages of 1602
Appendix B: Documents in the Life of Thomas Kyd
- From Richard Mulcaster, Positions (1581)
- Letter from Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Council (11 May 1593)
- Thomas Kyd, Two Letters to Sir John Puckering (1593)
- Thomas Kyd, Dedication to Robert Garnier’s Cornelia (1594)
Appendix C: The Question of Revenge
- From the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans
- From Seneca, Thyestes (first century CE)
- From “A Sermon against Contention and Brawling” (1547)
- From Richard Jones, The Book of Honor and Arms (1590)
- From William Westerman, Two Sermons of Assize (1600)
- From Ben Jonson, Introduction to Bartholomew Fair (1614)
- Sir Francis Bacon, “Of Revenge” (1625)
Appendix D: Violence and Entertainment in Elizabethan England
- From Robert Langham, A Letter (1575)
- From William Harrison, Description of England (1586)
- From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1595)
- John Norden, Map of London (1593)
- The Triple Tree at Tyburn
Appendix E: The Social Construction of Women at Court
- From Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
- From Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of Christian Women (1529)
- Queen Elizabeth’s Armada Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (9 August 1588)
- Lady Arbella Stuart, Letter to King James (c. December 1610)
- From Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam (1613)
Appendix F: Spain in Elizabethan Culture
- From Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse on Western Planting (1584)
- From A Fig for the Spaniard (1591)
- From Sir Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Azores (1591)
Works Cited and Further Reading