One Recurrent Theme: Revenge in Shakespeare's Tragedies, Histories and Comedies

Iliev, Krste and Pop Zarieva, Natalija and Donev, Dragan (2022) One Recurrent Theme: Revenge in Shakespeare's Tragedies, Histories and Comedies. Yearbook of the Faculty of Philology, University Goce Delcev, Stip, 13 (20). pp. 45-53. ISSN 1857-7059

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Abstract

This paper`s aim is to show that not only the revenge tragedies Hamlet and Titus Andronicus are shaped or influenced by the notion of revenge, but that Shakespeare used that notion in most of the other 34 plays featured in the 1623 First Folio, both as a major theme and as a device, the latter primarily in the comedies. In addition, the presence of revenge in his plays indicates that Shakespeare follows the platitude “Omni ars naturae imitation est” and the zeitgeist at that time particularly regarding Southern Europeans and revenge. Besides Shakespeare, other play writers who acquainted the public with this notion through their plays were Kyd`s The Spanish Tragedy (1592), Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge (1600) and Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606). Another aim of this paper is to establish how far revenge can be detrimental to the characters involved. For obvious reasons, this paper cannot cover all the instances of revenge in the thirty analyzed plays.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Natalija Pop Zarieva
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2023 13:19
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2023 13:19
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/31504

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