1. Elements of Tragedy

2. Fall of a Regal Person

3. Sudden Fall

4. Social and Cosmological Consequences

5. Determinism Vs. Autonomy

6. External (Often Supernatural) Influences

7. Multiple Deaths

8. Tragic Nobility

9. Catharsis

10. Anagnorisis

11. Hamartia

12. Hubris

13. Revenge Tragedy

14. Revenge Must Be Central to the Action

15. Revenger Can Be a Hero or a Villain

16. Action Must Involve a Blood Revenge (Kinship)

17. Requires Hesitation on the Part of the Hero

18. Revenger Wants to Kill Target’s Body & Soul; He Wants Revenge on Earth and in Heaven

19. There Is a Visitation by the Ghost of the Murder Victim

20. Often Contains Suicide

21. Counteraction by the Antagonist

22. Multiple Deaths – “Casual Slaughter”

23. Usually a Machiavellian Villain

24. Possible Madness on the Part of the Revenger (Either real or feigned)