- 'Revenge is a wild kind of justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out'
- Senecan/Blood tragedy
- Motivated by revenge/codes of honour
- Violence/Blood
- Supernatural
- Set in different countries- Spain/Italy which are associated with corruption,sin and lust
- Corruption- political/social
- Machiavelli/Malcontent
- Grotesque comedy- tragic events and gruesome
- Revenger dies and causes them to become morally corrupt
- Madness
Genre
- Aristotle/Seneca
- Aspects of revenge tragedy
- Morality play tradition
- Emerging trend of domestic tragedy eg. Othello
- Tragedy of the state = Hamlet and King Lear but The White Devil is one of sex and lust
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