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The puppetry is rudimentary, but Kyd's deadpan delivery of the owl's wisdom is not: It's extra dry, almost mocking and ironic.
Taffety Punk's 'Owl Moon': Many phases but few are a hoot Nelson Pressley 2011
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It isn't quite the unhinged literate thing that Christopher Walken does, but you feel like Walken might be in Kyd's attic whispering advice.
Taffety Punk's 'Owl Moon': Many phases but few are a hoot Nelson Pressley 2011
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Thus begins the symphony of camaraderie and agitation that is Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple," which is being revived merrily, and with relish for the details of annoying masculinity, at Theater J. Delaney Williams is a big teddy bear as Murray, sweet and dim, while Marcus Kyd's gritted-teeth performance as Speed neatly sets up Williams's plaintive punch lines.
At Theater J, a graceful and nuanced revival of classic 'Odd Couple' Nelson Pressley 2010
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Nevertheless, a comparison of Kyd's better passages with those of
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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These lines, with those immediately before and after, are more loosely adapted in Kyd's _Spanish Tragedie_, III, 1, 1-11.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Captain Kyd's treasure, and is one of the most remarkable illustrations of his ingenuity of construction and apparent subtlety of reasoning.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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Within a few months of _Tamburlaine_, appeared a play of almost equal influence on subsequent drama, Kyd's _Spanish Tragedy_.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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Kyd's part, to sole credit for his own form of tragedy and blank verse.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Richard III_, and _Locrine_ immediately adopted Kyd's theme and technic; indeed the stage for half a dozen years abounded in avenging heroes, diabolical villains, shrieking ghosts, and long soliloquies on fate, death, retribution, and kindred themes.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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Captain Kyd's buried booty would have been worse trash to him than Iago's stolen purse, beside this unearthed deposit of an antediluvian age.
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