Being his most noteworthy work, The Spanish Tragedy is responsible for the introduction of an abundance of game changing ideals such as "the iambic pentameter, the five act structure, the play within a play, causality, the Machiavellian villain, the soliloquy, the blank verse, and the Revenge Tragedy" (Nance); single handedly opening new doors and paving uncharted roads in Elizabethan Theatre for other writers to follow in the years to come. ... Undoubtedly, Kyd is the one whom these contributions have been relatively attributed to in the world of academia and in the institutionalize...

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