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Thomas Kyd may have delighted Elizabethan audiences, but he still wasn’t a patch on Shakespeare

Brian Vickers aims to ‘restore’ Kyd to greatness – but claiming too much on too little evidence does the playwright no favours

The hanged body of Horatio is discovered by Hieronimo. Frontispiece of The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd Bridgeman Images

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Thomas Kyd may have delighted Elizabethan audiences, but he still wasn’t a patch on Shakespeare
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