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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).
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 .
The play has an episodic structure, which alternates comic, slapstick scenes with serious, tragic ones, all unified by the theme of revenge. [9] It is one of the earliest examples of an English revenge play , a genre that includes Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1587), Marston's The Malcontent (1603) and Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601). [ 10 ]
Revenge has been a popular literary theme historically and continues to play a role in contemporary works. [31] Examples of literature that feature revenge as a theme include the plays Hamlet and Othello by William Shakespeare, the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.
The first true bourgeois tragedy was an English play, George Lillo's The London Merchant; or, the History of George Barnwell, which was first performed in 1731. Usually, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Miss Sara Sampson, which was first produced in 1755, is said to be the earliest Bürgerliches Trauerspiel in Germany.
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge [a] is a 2004 action-adventure video game developed by Tose for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.The game was published by Capcom in Japan and Europe, and by Buena Vista Games in North America.
Zuma's Revenge walkthrough, cheats and tips. Martijn Mueller, Gamezebo. Updated August 10, 2016 at 7:09 PM. Zumas Revenge. GENERAL TIPS. ... This boss is not too hard if you know how to play.
X2: Wolverine's Revenge (released as X-Men 2: Wolverine's Revenge in Europe and Australia; originally known as X-Men: Wolverine's Revenge during E3 2002) is an action beat 'em up video game based on Marvel Comics character Wolverine, a member of the mutant team X-Men, developed by British game developer GenePool Software and published by Activision for PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox with ...