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    The document discusses the revenge tragedy genre of plays, which emerged in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England between the 1580s and 1620s. In a revenge tragedy, the protagonist seeks vengeance for a real or imagined wrong committed against them. The genre focuses on tragic heroes who exhibit certain conventions like committing a fatal flaw that leads to their downfall.

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    The document discusses the revenge tragedy genre of plays, which emerged in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England between the 1580s and 1620s. In a revenge tragedy, the protagonist seeks vengeance for a real or imagined wrong committed against them. The genre focuses on tragic heroes who exhibit certain conventions like committing a fatal flaw that leads to their downfall.

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    The document discusses the revenge tragedy genre of plays, which emerged in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England between the 1580s and 1620s. In a revenge tragedy, the protagonist seeks vengeance for a real or imagined wrong committed against them. The genre focuses on tragic heroes who exhibit certain conventions like committing a fatal flaw that leads to their downfall.

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    The document discusses the revenge tragedy genre of plays, which emerged in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England between the 1580s and 1620s. In a revenge tragedy, the protagonist seeks vengeance for a real or imagined wrong committed against them. The genre focuses on tragic heroes who exhibit certain conventions like committing a fatal flaw that leads to their downfall.

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    The revenge tragedy, or revenge play, is a dramatic genre in which

    the protagonist seeks revenge for an imagined or actual injury. The


    term revenge tragedy was first introduced in 1900 by A. H.
    Thorndike to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and
    early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s)

    Ingredients to make a tragic hero:

    Conventions of a tragic hero:

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