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Description edit
The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the genre, and deals with fundamental moral... read more
Books in This Collection
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The Spanish Tragedy
by Thomas Kyd (Author)The Spanish Tragedy, highly influential and popular in its time, established a new genre in English theatre - the revenge play or revenge tragedy. The plot of ""The Spanish Tragedy"" contains several violent murders and includes as ...
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The Revenger's Tragedy
by Cyril Tourneur (Author) -
The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois a Tragedie
by George Chapman -
Characters/People edit
- Don Balthazar: Add a description of this character.
- Sebastian
- Don Lorenzo
- Don Horatio
- Maillard
- Vindice
- Don Andrea
- Pedringano
- Soquette
- Isabella
- Borachio
- Hippolito
- Renel
- Hieronimo
- Lussurioso
- Supervacuo
- Baligny
- Guise
- Soliman
- Jaques
- Don Pedro
- Soisson
- Serberine
- Rhodes
- Madam
- Monsieur
- Aumale
- Tamyra
- Alexandro
- Prince Balthazar
- Chalon
- Heav
- Spurio
- Henry
- Duke
- Villuppo
- Troy
Setting & Locations edit
- Charlemont
- Clermont
- Spain
- Castabella
- Castile
- Ambitioso
- Perseda
- France
- Cambrai
- Erasto
- Lord Belforest
- Italy
- Hippohto
First Sentence edit
Enter the Ghost of Andrea, and with him Revenge
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 808
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