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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 Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The genre was first categorised by the scholar Fredson Bowers.

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