Three Jacobean Revenge Tragedies: The Revenger's Tragedy, Women Beware Women, The Changeling

A selection of critical essays.

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).