Revenge Tragedy History and Background as it applies to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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Revenge Tragedy History and Background as it applies to Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Revenge Tragedy History Very popular in Shakespeare’s time Influenced by the Roman dramatist, Seneca Predecessors to Hamlet: Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy Marlowe’s Jew of Malta Very popular in Shakespeare’s time Influenced by the Roman dramatist, Seneca Predecessors to Hamlet: Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy Marlowe’s Jew of Malta

So audiences knew what to expect

Ingredients: How to build a revenge tragedy A melancholy hero/avenger A hesitating avenger (what happens if there is no hesitation?) A villain to be killed in the revenge Complex plotting A melancholy hero/avenger A hesitating avenger (what happens if there is no hesitation?) A villain to be killed in the revenge Complex plotting

Ingredients: How to build a revenge tragedy (continued) Murders and other physical horrors A play-within-a play Sexual obsession and lust related to the passion for revenge A ghost who calls for revenge Real or feigned madness Death of the avenger Murders and other physical horrors A play-within-a play Sexual obsession and lust related to the passion for revenge A ghost who calls for revenge Real or feigned madness Death of the avenger

Structure Revenge Tragedy Exposition Anticipation Confrontation Delay Completion Exposition Anticipation Confrontation Delay Completion

Exposition Background information Usually provided by a ghost Provides motivation for revenge Background information Usually provided by a ghost Provides motivation for revenge

Anticipation Detailed planning of revenge takes place Complexity of the revenge plot builds tension and anticipation Detailed planning of revenge takes place Complexity of the revenge plot builds tension and anticipation

Confrontation Confrontation between the avenger and the intended victim Builds tension Confrontation between the avenger and the intended victim Builds tension

Delay Avenger has second thoughts Hesitation causes delay--slows down the play Delay increases tension Avenger has second thoughts Hesitation causes delay--slows down the play Delay increases tension

Completion The plan is carried out The revenge is complete Often the avenger is killed The plan is carried out The revenge is complete Often the avenger is killed

Four Revenge Plots in Hamlet 1.Pyrrhus 2.Hamlet (the main one) 3.Laertes (complicates matters) 4.Fortinbras (opens and ends play ) 1.Pyrrhus 2.Hamlet (the main one) 3.Laertes (complicates matters) 4.Fortinbras (opens and ends play )

Morality of Revenge How is revenge viewed today? How was it viewed in the Old Testament? eye for an eye? How is revenge viewed today? How was it viewed in the Old Testament? eye for an eye? Shakespeare’s time (late 16th century) Crime: revenge against the law Sin: Church said that the avenger’s soul would suffer everlasting torment in hell What are the implications? Shakespeare’s time (late 16th century) Crime: revenge against the law Sin: Church said that the avenger’s soul would suffer everlasting torment in hell What are the implications?

Revenge according to Francis Bacon (1625) Revenge is a kind of “wild justice”

The most intolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy, but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man ’ s enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh. This is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent.... This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate.... But in private revenges this is not so. Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate.

Adapted from Cambridge School Hamlet Edited by Richard Andrews and Rex Gibson 1994 Cambridge School Hamlet Edited by Richard Andrews and Rex Gibson 1994