... "the greatest writer in the English language"- Shakespeare himself. 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 ... average human sponge that gathers their knowledge from less than scholarly sources-- Shakespeare is the one who is praised for his ingenious depictions of these contributions in works such as Hamlet and Othello. He is the...

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