Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London on November 6, 1558. Nevertheless, some facts can be related with certitude: Because of this, some of Kyd's life has given way to legend and conjecture. Documentation for his early life exists, but during the most important years of his life, when he was writing and composing plays, almost no record of him remains other than a letter he wrote following his imprisonment and torture on the charge of heresy. Perhaps because of his humble origins-a trait he shared with Shakespeare-Kyd was the first dramatist to not only interpret the masterworks of the past, but compose masterworks of his own for his own times. Kyd was the first to revitalize the classical tragic form, with all its violence and tension, using English that was neither obscure nor melodramatic but penetratingly real. other writers-belonging to the community of so-called "university wits"-had attempted to translate the style of Latin drama for the English stage Kyd was the first to do so successfully. Kyd was not educated at university and came from a relatively humble background nonetheless, he was well-acquainted with the classics and most likely was fluent in Latin and Greek.
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