![]() It is also known that Kyd wrote The Householder’s Philosophy-a translation of Torquato Tasso’s Italian play, Padre di Famiglia-in 1588, and in 1594, he published a translation of a French play by Robert Garnier entitled Cornelia. While the exact time during which The Spanish Tragedy was written is not known, it is suspected to have been written in the mid- to late 1580s, with the earliest surviving edition printed in 1592. ![]() Like Kyd himself, little is known about his work however, a handful of plays have been positively attributed to him, including The Spanish Tragedy, which was initially published anonymously. In the 1580s, Kyd found fame as a respected playwright whose talent rivaled that of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. It is not known if Kyd ever attended university, but there is evidence to suggest that he worked as a scrivener for a short time. In the late 1560s, Kyd enrolled in the Merchant Taylors’ School, a new private boys’ school in London that opened in 1561 and is still in operation today. Little is known about Kyd’s life, but his father was a successful scrivener, so it is likely the Kyds were a comfortable middle-class family. ![]() Thomas Kyd was born in 1558 to Francis and Anna Kyd. ![]()
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