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• revenge tragedy — ▪ drama       drama in which the dominant motive is revenge for a real or imagined injury; it was a favourite form of English tragedy in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras and found its highest expression in William Shakespeare s (Shakespeare,… …   Universalium

• Revenge play — [ Quarto edition of The Spanish Tragedy (1615)] The revenge play or revenge tragedy is a form of tragedy which was extremely popular in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. The best known of these are Thomas Kyd s The Spanish Tragedy and William… …   Wikipedia

• tragedy — /traj i dee/, n., pl. tragedies. 1. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society …   Universalium

• tragedy — Synonyms and related words: Aeschylean tragedy, Euripidean tragedy, Greek tragedy, Melpomene, Renaissance tragedy, Senecan tragedy, Sophoclean tragedy, accident, adversity, blow, buskin, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Revenge — (also vengeance, retribution, or vendetta amongst others) consists primarily of retaliation against a person or group in response to a real or perceived wrongdoing. Although many aspects of revenge resemble or echo the concept of justice, revenge …   Wikipedia

• Revenge (disambiguation) — Revenge may refer to:In entertainment: *The revenge play, a form of tragedy * Revenge (1918 film), a 1918 film directed by Tod Browning * Revenge (film), a 1990 film starring Kevin Costner * Revenge (1999 film), a 1999 film * Revenge (Alfred… …   Wikipedia

• tragedy — noun 1 event/situation that causes great sadness ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, appalling (esp. BrE), awful, big, enormous, great, horrible, horrific, major, rea …   Collocations dictionary

• The Spanish Tragedy — The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is mad againe is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 ndash;92. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play… …   Wikipedia

• Renaissance Tragedy — revived the classical Greek tragedy fusing Elizabethan Drama and storyline complexities with a more morbid ending (in which the protagonist usually dies, compared to Greek tragedy which they live). The Renaissance tragedy was most prominent in… …   Wikipedia

• The Atheist's Tragedy — The Atheist s Tragedy, or the Honest Man s Revenge is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Cyril Tourneur and first published in 1611. It is the only dramatic work recognized by the consensus of modern scholarship as the undisputed… …   Wikipedia