Thomas Kyd Quotes

Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his Apologie for Actors . A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a Hamlet play pre-dating Shakespeare's, which is now known as the Ur-Hamlet. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. November 1558 – 16. July 1594
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Famous Thomas Kyd Quotes

“For what's a play without a woman in it?”

Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy

Act IV, sc. i
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)

“Evil news fly faster still than good.”

Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy

Act I, sc. iii
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)

“What outcries pluck me from my naked bed
And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear.”

Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy

Act II, sc. v
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)

Thomas Kyd Quotes

“Thus must we toil in other men's extremes,
That know not how to remedy our own.”

Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy

Act III, sc. vi
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)

“Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss?”

Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy

Act III, sc. vi
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)

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