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Revenge Revenge is a frighteningly bloodthirsty emotion, which causes people to act blindly and without reason. Revenge is a theme that is cleverly built upon throughout the extent of the play; with it being the driving force behind two of the main characters in the play.(Hamlet and Laertes) All revenge tragedies originally came from the Greeks, who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca(author of classical tragedies), who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca who was Roman, basically set all of the ideas for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare.One of the most famous English revenge tragedies written in the Elizabethan era was Hamlet, written by Shakespeare. During the time of Elizabethan theater, plays about tragedy and revenge were very common and a regular convention seemed to be formed on what aspects should be put into a typical revenge tragedy....

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