1. William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd
Although Thomas Kyd may not have a comparably extensive list of well-known works that clutter his resume, he does possess one in particular that is critically important; The Spanish Tragedy. ... In distinguished plays such as Hamlet, one can see traces of Kyd's influence in aspects like that of the Machiavellian character Claudius, Hamlet's play within a play, and the most obvious of all, the fact that Hamlet, in and of itself, is a "Revenge Tragedy". ... Shakespearean characters such as Iago and Richard III are the ones who are primarily envisioned when pondering the essen...
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