The Works of Thomas Kyd Author:Christopher Marlowe, Frederick Samuel Boas, Thomas Kyd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUPPLEMENT CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS 1902-54 Abbreviations T. K. = Thomas Kyd. M.L.N. = Modern Language Notes. N. and Q. — Notes ami Queries. R.E... more ».S. = Review of English Studies. T.L.S, = Times Literary Supplement. Sp. Trag. = The Spanish Tra- gedit. Y. W.E.S. = The Year's Work in English Studies. .II General In the Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. v, chap, vii (1910), G. Gregory Smith wrote on Marlowe and Kyd. Among the points in his section on Kyd were the rejection of his authorship of the First Part of leronimo ; his acceptance as ' more than a plausible inference ' of Kyd's authorship of the early Hamlet; and his doubt whether Soliman and Perseda should be assigned to him. Gregory Smith summed up : ' Kyd is the first to discover the bearing of episode and of the " movement " of the story on characterization, and the first to give the audience and reader the hint of the development of character which follows from this interaction. In other words he is the first English dramatist who writes dramatically.' Charles Crawford contributed a Concordance to the Works of T. K. to W. Bang's Materialen (1906-7). Signs of the growing interest in Kyd's work on the Continent were J. de Smet's Thomas Kyd: I'homme, I'auvre, le milieu, followed by a translation of Sp. Trag. into French prose (Brussels, 1925); and F. Carrere's Le theatre de Thomas Kyd (Toulouse, '950. Biographical—Francis Kyd Bernard M. Wagner in N. and Q., Dec. 15, 1928, showed from the records of the Scriveners' Company (Bodl. MS. Rawlinson D. 51) that the dramatist's father, Francis Kyd, was admitted tothe freedom of the Company in 1557, and in 1580 became one of its two Wardens. There are entries concerning his apprentices in iS57, 1578, and 1591. Kyd's Letter...« less