ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The revenge drama derived originally from the Roman tragedies of Seneca but was established on the English stage by Thomas Kyd with The Spanish Tragedy (performed c. 1587).

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first really popular revenge tragedy was The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd. It was written more than a decade before Hamlet, and it was still being performed when Hamlet was first staged.

Detailed explanation-4: -The revenge tragedy, or revenge play, is a dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge for an imagined or actual injury. The term revenge tragedy was first introduced in 1900 by A. H. Thorndike to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s).

Detailed explanation-5: -In Shakespeare’s works, vengeance is used to get to the source of violence and to stir the audience. His writings leave a noticeable and important message that vengeance is not always the best approach to address problems, yet his use of vengeance in his works encourages the use of vengeance in literature.