Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
Title page of Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, with a woodcut showing (left) the hung body of Horatio discovered by (centre) Hieronymo; and Bel-imperia being taken from the scene by a blackface Lorenzo (right).
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1594.
Portrait of Maria Tesselschade Visscher, daughter of Roemer Visscher, copy after Hendrick Goltzius in 1612