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The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton

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A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity.

Date Published: 06 November 2009
Contributors:
Emma Smith
In Collection(s): Shakespeare’s Contemporary dramatists, Thomas Middleton, Questioning Genre
Keywords:
english, language, jacobean, elizabethan, theatre, renaissance, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton by Emma Smith at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/revengers-tragedy-thomas-middleton. Published on 06 November 2009. Accessed on 31 October 2025.

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