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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]
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.
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 ...
Title page of The Revenger's Tragedy. 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."
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 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. [2]
The octavo text of the play is prefaced by a commendatory poem by Nathaniel Richards, author of The Tragedy of Messalina (published 1640). Thomas Dekker 's play Match Me in London (written c. 1612, but printed in 1631) has a plot that is strongly similar to Women Beware , though with a happy ending rather than a tragic conclusion.
The Revenge of Bussy is one in Chapman's series of plays on then-recent French history and politics, blending the genres of tragedy and history. The play was preceded by the original Bussy D'Ambois and The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, and followed by The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France.