All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks, who wrote and performed the first plays. ... These two plays used mostly all of the Elizabethan conventions for revenge tragedies in their plays. ... The play is filled with all kinds of bloody action and many people die throughout the course of the play. The accomplices in the play also all end up dead. ... It is quite obvious that the play had a gruesome, violent death and the sexual aspect of the play was clearly intro...

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• Grade Level: High School

The play Oedipus displays three elements of the cathartic moment very well. ... Hamlet's moment of enlightenment and fall of shields occur almost at the end of the play. ... Henriek Ibsen's play Ghosts depicts the story of a mother whom is preventing her son to arise his father's existence in him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School