Elizabethan.  Popular during the late 16 th and early 17 th century  Based off Roman/Greek tragedies  Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy  Tragedies = tragic.

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Elizabethan

 Popular during the late 16 th and early 17 th century  Based off Roman/Greek tragedies  Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy  Tragedies = tragic hero = tragic flaw

 Play within a play  Insanity/madness/psychology  Gory scenes  Supernatural characters  Vengeful ghosts  Characters with grievances  Murder/death  Revenge  Trickery/manipulation/deceit

REVENGE  Noun  Vengeance for yourself AVENGE  Verb  To take vengeance on behalf of someone else

 Something disrupts the order of things.  CHAOS!  Social restraint falls away.  Bad things happen & order is restored.

 Written between  Longest play written – 4,042 lines  Hamlet has 1, 530 lines  No basis in historical events  45 movie versions  “To be or not to be” most quoted line  Allusions in pop-culture ▪ The Lion King ▪ Billy Madison Billy Madison ▪ The Simpsons The Simpsons

 Symbolism  Puns & double meaning  Appearance v Reality  Sanity v Insanity  Random Fortune v Divine Master Plan  Underlying Sexuality  Differences in vengeance  Death v Decay v Corruption

 Soliloquy  Purpose?  Aside  Purpose?  Monologue  Allusion  Irony  Dramatic  Verbal