SHAKESPEARE'S TUTOR. The Influence of Thomas Kyd.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Publisher's original illustrated boards, with titles in white to the upper board and spine. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents, with just the occasional pencilled marginalia by previous owner Dr Richard Rowland, are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

From the library of (and with pencilled marginalia of) Dr Richard Rowland, editor and author on the Renaissance and classical mythology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. An interpretation of early modern playwright Thomas Kyd's dramatic corpus by Shakespeare scholar Darren Freebury-Jones, that places Kyd and his involvement with the Shakespearean canon within their wider historical context.