revenge tragedy

English

Noun

revenge tragedy (countable and uncountable, plural revenge tragedies)

  1. (drama) A theatrical genre in which revenge and its fatal consequences are the principal themes.
    Synonyms: revenge drama, revenge play
    Jacobean revenge tragedy
    • 1999, Eileen Jorge Allman, Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 33:
      Created as a theatrical form, the cult that had glorified female virtue was particularly useful in the representation of women in revenge tragedy, the darkly nostalgic genre devoted to the exposure of injustice, favoritism, and corruption.

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