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Revenge play

Title page of the Quarto edition of The Spanish Tragedy (1615)

The revenge tragedy, or revenge play, is a dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge for an imagined or actual injury.[1] The term revenge tragedy was first introduced in 1900 by A. H. Thorndike to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s).[2]

  1. ^ "Revenge tragedy | drama". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. ^ Kerrigan, John. Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. Print.

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مسرحية الانتقام Arabic Rachetragödie German Tragedia de venganza Spanish نمایشنامه انتقام FA 復讐悲劇 Japanese Wraaktragedie Dutch Hevndrama NB

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