![]() ![]() Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London on November 6, 1558. Nevertheless, some facts can be related with certitude: Because of this, some of Kyd's life has given way to legend and conjecture. ![]() Documentation for his early life exists, but during the most important years of his life, when he was writing and composing plays, almost no record of him remains other than a letter he wrote following his imprisonment and torture on the charge of heresy. Perhaps because of his humble origins-a trait he shared with Shakespeare-Kyd was the first dramatist to not only interpret the masterworks of the past, but compose masterworks of his own for his own times. ![]() Kyd was the first to revitalize the classical tragic form, with all its violence and tension, using English that was neither obscure nor melodramatic but penetratingly real. other writers-belonging to the community of so-called "university wits"-had attempted to translate the style of Latin drama for the English stage Kyd was the first to do so successfully. Kyd was not educated at university and came from a relatively humble background nonetheless, he was well-acquainted with the classics and most likely was fluent in Latin and Greek. ![]()
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