Kyd

or Kid

[ kid ]

noun

1. Thomas, 1558–94, English dramatist.

Kyd

/ kɪd /

noun

1. KydThomas15581594MEnglishTHEATRE: dramatist Thomas. 1558–94, English dramatist, noted for his revenge play The Spanish Tragedy (1586)

Example Sentences

Every chapter is headed with a brief quote from a Jacobean revenge tragedy by the likes of Webster, Kyd, or Jonson.

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Kyd, in the Spanish Tragedy, shows that the method of studying an improvised play was well understood.

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Today we still read the work of the initiators, Lyly, Greene, Kyd.

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Out of a seeming welter of forms, the structure, the metres and the species that Kyd and Marlowe found slowly emerged.

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Jackson sent forward to make enquiries Major Kyd Douglas of his staff.

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The only other play certainly by Kyd is a translation of Garnier's Cornelia, 1595, which was doubtless never acted.

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