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To what extent is 'Hamlet' a revenge tragedy? In what ways does it help us to consider it as such and what do we miss by considering it only as a revenge tragedy?
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To what extent is 'Hamlet' a revenge tragedy? In what ways does it help us to consider it as such and what do we miss by considering it only as a revenge tragedy? Revenge tragedy was a brief sub genre of tragedy at the end of the sixteenth century, despite some clashes with the teachings of the church. In a revenge tragedy a crime, normally murder, has gone unpunished, because the criminal has too much power and cannot be reached by the law. This fact is revealed by a ghost to someone closely connected with the victim, laying on him the responsibility to revenge the crime. The revenger is usually an outsider who lacks access to the criminal, who is at the centre of a completely corrupt court. Poison plays a large part and methods of killing are intricate, insidious and imaginative. The revenger dies at the end of the play,...
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