Shakespearean tragedy
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Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most of William Shakespeare's tragedies. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because they are based on real
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, Joshua Reynolds (1784). Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was an esteemed performer of Shakespearean tragedy.
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) King Lear, Cordelia's Farewell
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Hamlet and his Father's Ghost, William Blake (1806)
Revenge tragedy
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Revenge tragedy is a theatrical genre in which the principal theme is revenge and revenge's fatal consequences. Formally established by American educator Ashley H. Thorndike in his 1902 article "The R
Shakespeare's First Folio
