He introduced the term " revenge tragedy " in 1900 to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras.
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Sometimes revenge tragedies end with a prince or a king or a god descending on the scene and imposing order where there had just been complete anarchy.
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But this week, the producers of Sophocles'revenge tragedy proudly announced that they had recouped all of the show's initial $ 600, 000 investment at the Barrymore Theater.
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Scholars have examined the themes of the revenge tragedy in the context of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period as a way to understand its rapid growth in popularity.
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During the reign of Norton and Thomas Kyd's ( 1558 94 ) revenge tragedy " The Spanish Tragedy " ( 1592 ), that influenced Shakespeare's " Hamlet ".
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One of the great contentions of the revenge tragedy is the issue of private revenge vs . divine revenge or public ( i . e . state sanctioned ) revenge.
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A revenge tragedy thus can also be any tragedy where revenge is, more or less, a minor part of the overall narrative rather than just a narrative's major driving force.
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While Thorndike is rather conservative in his definition of a revenge tragedy, it has become common to consider any tragedy that maintains an element of revenge in it a revenge tragedy.
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While Thorndike is rather conservative in his definition of a revenge tragedy, it has become common to consider any tragedy that maintains an element of revenge in it a revenge tragedy.
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This macabre revenge tragedy, the genre's ultimate exercise in imaginative gore and morbidity, has traditionally been interpreted as a dark morality fable about virtue and corruption in the all-enveloping shadow of death.
