Excerpt from The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet: Prince of Denmarke

It has often been suggested that 'English Seneca' is Thomas Kyd, whose famous Spanish Tragedy (c. 1586) was distinctly in the Senecan style. His father followed the 'trade of Nouerint,' that is, was a law scrivener, and Kyd himself published translations from Italian and French. The arguments for the belief are to be found in Dr. F. S. Boas's edition of the Works of Thomas Kyd (p. xlv); and on the other side in Dr. R. B. Mckerrow's Works of Thomas Nashe (IV. 449).

Between the years 1586 and 1593, Greene and Marlowe produced all their plays. Greene died in September 1592 and Marlowe at the end of the following May. A few weeks later a severe outbreak of the plague put a stop to dramatic work in London. In June 1594 a fresh start was made in London by the Lord Chamberlain's and the Lord Admiral's Players, who both acted for a short period under Henslowe's management at a small theatre in Newington Butts.

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