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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]
It is common to consider any tragedy containing an element of revenge a revenge tragedy. Lily Campbell argues that revenge is the great thematic uniter of all early modern tragedy, and "Elizabethan tragedy must appear as fundamentally a tragedy of revenge if the extent of the idea of revenge be but grasped". [ 5 ]
The Changeling is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.Widely regarded as being among the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, the play has accumulated a large amount of critical commentary.
The Revenger's Tragedy is an English-language Jacobean revenge tragedy which was performed in 1606, and published in 1607 by George Eld. It was long attributed to Cyril Tourneur , but "The consensus candidate for authorship of The Revenger’s Tragedy at present is Thomas Middleton , although this is a knotty issue that is far from settled."
The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. [1] It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre , then later to a larger audience at The Globe , in 1613–1614.
Bussy D'Ambois: A Tragedie (probably written 1603–1604; first published 1607) [1] is a Jacobean stage play written by George Chapman.Classified as either a tragedy or "contemporary history," Bussy D'Ambois is widely considered Chapman's greatest play, [2] and is the earliest in a series of plays that Chapman wrote about the French political scene in his era, including the sequel The Revenge ...
The Malcontent is an early Jacobean stage play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston ca. 1603. The play was one of Marston's most successful works. It is widely regarded as one of the most significant plays of the English Renaissance; an extensive body of scholarly research and critical commentary has accumulated around it. [1]
Title page of the 1634 quarto. The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy, first published in 1634 and attributed jointly to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare.Its plot derives from "The Knight's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1387–1400), which had already been dramatised at least twice before, and itself was a shortened version of Boccaccio's epic poem Teseida.