The Revenge Tragedy The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period for both literary and cultural reasons. ... That revenge is a self-engaged and retrospective action taken privately against an equal who has injured one's honour was an idea already stated by Aristotle. ... For instance you might discuss the fact that it was so unusual for a woman to take revenge in those patriarchal times, that she would be expected by an audience to use covert and cunning means in order to perpetrate her revenge effectively, as she lacked the physical strength...

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