Seneca who was Roman, basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. ... For the dramatists of Renaissance Italy, France and England, classical tragedy meant only the ten Latin plays of Seneca and not Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. ... The revenge must be the cause of a catastrophe and the beginning of the revenge must start immediately after the crisis. ... In the beginning, Shakespeare sets up the scene, having a ghost on a dark night. ...

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