Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd (Paperback)

“Darren Freebury-Jones works meticulously, using a clearly explained methodology, to give us a much-expanded canon of Kyd’s work … This does look like a plausibly coherent grouping of dramas, and it gives Freebury-Jones a lot to work with when he examines Kyd’s influence on Shakespeare, looking at features such as vengeful female characters, foreboding dreams, dramatic structure and multi-layered staging”.Bart van Es, Times Literary Supplement“Darren Freebury-Jones’s latest book represents a continuation of his revisionary scholarship on adaptation, imitation, and attribution … this path-breaking monograph … reveals deep, subtle, and multiform stylistic interaction between Shakespeare and his contemporaries … the author manages to convey an astonishing amount of evidence with concision in accessible and direct critical language”.Goran Stanivukovic, Modern Language Review“This stimulating book boldly claims a much more relevant role for Kyd in relation to Shakespeare. The two main objectives of the study are to prove that Kyd’s dramatic canon was larger than the three extant plays attributed to him and that his influence on Shakespeare has so far been underestimated … The book confidently asserts that Kyd played a far more important role than has been acknowledged so far.”Cristina Paravano, The Year’s Work in English Studies - .