Reconsidering the Early Modern Machiavellian: Illicit Manuscripts and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.

Almost from the moment they began to circulate, Machiavelli's political ideas were met with both praise and scorn. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (ca. 1585) reflects this complicated reception of Machiavellian ideas, with Kyd depicting both evil and biblical versions of the Machiavel through Loren...

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Published in:Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 443 - 467
Main Author: Ponce, Timothy M.
Format: Article
Published: University of Texas Press Winter2018
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