Revenge play

Title page of the Quarto edition of *The Spanish Tragedy* (1615)

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]

^ "Revenge tragedy | drama". Encyclopedia Britannica.
^ Kerrigan, John. Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. Print.

[middlebury1-1] "Revenge tragedy | drama". Encyclopedia Britannica.

[autogenerated1996-2] Kerrigan, John. Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. Print.

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