Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, the Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, and the Atheist's Tragedy

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Each of the four plays here defines the problems of the revenge genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy.