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  2. Senecan tragedy - Wikipedia

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    The first English tragedy, Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca. (As it happens, Gorboduc does follow the form as well as the subject matter of Senecan tragedy: but only a very few other English plays—e.g.

  3. Revenge play - Wikipedia

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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).

  4. Revenge tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Revenge tragedy caught their imagination and writers attempted plays of this genre with their own variations of dramaturgy. Shakespeare raised his revenge tragedy to a high intellectual and philosophical level by making Hamlet a virtuous, sensitive scholar. Cyril Tourneur exploited the morbid and melodramatic in The Atheists Tragedy .

  5. Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    He is regarded as the source and inspiration for what is known as "Revenge Tragedy", starting with Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and continuing well into the Jacobean era. [67] Thyestes is considered Seneca's masterpiece, [68] and has been described by scholar Dana Gioia as "one of the most influential plays ever written". [69]

  6. Theatre of ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabulae crepidatae; a fabula crepidata or fabula cothurnata is a Latin tragedy with Greek subjects. Seneca appears as a character in the tragedy Octavia, the only extant example of fabula praetexta (tragedies based on Roman subjects, first created by Naevius), and as a result, the play was ...

  7. Category:Plays by Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who is also known as Seneca the Younger.Octavia is included in the category, as although it is very probably not by him, [1] it is usually included in collections of Seneca's plays, such as the Penguin Classics book of Seneca's plays, Four Tragedies and Octavia

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    This literature course explores the ethics of revenge as portrayed in four distinct literary contexts: ancient Greek tragedy; Elizabethan/Jacobean revenge tragedy; 20th-century literature and film; and 21st-century horror literature as an exploration of racial trauma in America.