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". Undoubtedly, Kyd is the one whom these contributions have been relatively attributed to in the world of academia and in the institutionalized sphere of scholarly-based knowledge; however, in the real world--made up of the average human sponge that gathers their knowledge from less than scholarly sources-- Shakespeare ...

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