Tragedy Of Revenge

1. REVENGE
TRAGEDY IN THE
ELIZABETHAN AGE
WITH REFERENCE
TO “CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE”

2. SOME IMPORTANT POINT TO BE ILLUSTRATED
CONCLUSION
COMMON THEME IN REVENGE TRAGEDY IN THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
BIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGLISH DRAMA
STRUCTURE OF REVENGE TRAGEDY WITH REFERENCE TO CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
FAMOUS TRAGEDY DRAMATIST OF THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
DEFINITION OF REVENGE TRAGEDY
REVENGE TRAGEDY AS ONE OF THE GENRE OF ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
ROLE OF THE DRAMA AS ONE OF THE LITERARY DEVELOPMENT DURING THE AGE
THE ELIZABETHAN AGE

3. THE ELIZABETHAN
AGE
1558-1603
THE ELIZABETHAN AGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE CONCIDES WITH THE REIGN OF
ELIZABETH I 1558-1603
DURING THIS TIME MEDIEVAL TRADITION WAS BLENDED WITH RENAISSANCE
OPTIMISM
LYRICS, POETRY ,PROSE ,AND DRAMA WERE THE MAJOR STYLES OF LITERATURE
THAT FLOWERED DURING THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
SOME IMPORTANT WRITER OF THE ELIZABETHAN AGE INCLUDE : WILLIAM
SHAKESPEAR , CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE , EDMUND SPENSER ,SIR WALTER RALEIGH
AND BEN JONSON
QUEEN ELIZABETH LOVE FOR ARTS AS THE MAIN REASON LITERATURE BECAME
POPULAR DURING THIS TIME
 KNOWN AS “ THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH HISTORY”

4.  RELATIVELY PEACEFUL ERA
 CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PROTESTANT HAD BECOME CIVIL WITH ONE
ANOTHER
BATTLE BETWEEN MONARCHY AND PARLIAMENT COME TO AN END
BEFORE THIS ERA
BIRTH OF ENGLISH RENAISANCE
 CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE
PRODUCED MANY WRITER SUCH AS SHAKESPEAR
THE AGE OF GREAT NATIONALISTIC , EXPANSION ,COMMERCIAL GROWTH
AND RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY

5. 1. HOW WAS ELIZABETHAN DRAMA CREATED?
 THE ELIZABETHAN ERA SAW THE BIRTH OF PLAY S THAT WERE FAR MORE MORALLY
COMPLEX , VITAL AND DIVERSE
2. WHAT IS DRAMA IN THE ELIZABETHAN ERA ?
 DURING THE ELIZABETHAN AGE TRAGEDY AND COMEDY DEVELOPED
 THE RENAISSANCE GAVE RISE TO A GROWING INTEREST IN MAN AS PRESENTED IN
CLASSICAL DRAMA ,WHICH HAD EXAMPLES OF BOTH COMEDY AND TRAGEDY .
3. WHY WAS ELIZABETHAN DRAMA SO POPULAR ?
• ELIZABETH ENCOURAGED THE THEATRE ,WHICH MADE FASHIONABLE
• IT WAS AN AFFORDABLE ENTERTAINMENT. THE THEATRE WAS A GOOD PLACE TO
SOCIALISE.
4 . WHO IS THE MAJOR PLAYWRIGHT OF THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA ?
SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYWRIGHT COME FROM THE ELIZABETHAN
ERA, INCLUDING WILLIAM SHAKESPERE , BEN JONSON AND CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE.

6. 5. WHO WAS THE FIRST PLAYWRIGHT?
 THE FIRST PLAYWRIGHT IN WESTERN LITERATURE WHOSE PLAYS STILL EXIST
WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS
 THEY WERE WRITTEN AROUND THE 5 CENTURY B.C
6. WHAT WAS THE FIRST TRAGEDY PLAY ?
 THE FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY ,GORBODUE (1561), BY THOMAS SACKVILLE AND
THOMAS NORTON, IS A CHAIN OF SLAUGHTER AND REVENGE WRITTEN IN
DIRECT IMITATION OF SENECA.
7. WHAT IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARLOWE IN ELIZABETHAN DRAMA ?
 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE WAS AN ELIZABETHAN POET WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR
NOST IMPORTANT PREDECESSOR IN ENGLISH DRAMA.
 HE IS NOTED ESPECIALLY FOR HIS ESTABLISHMENT OF DRAMATIC BLANK
VERSE.

7. 8. IS CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ON ELIZABETHAN ERA ?
 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ,ALSO KNOWN AS “KIT MARLOWE” WAS AN
ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT , POET AND TRANSLATOR OF THE ELIZABETHAN ERA
 MARLOWE IS AMONG THE FAMOUS OF THE ELIZABETHAN PLAYWRIGHTS.
9. WHAT ARE THE FAMOUS DRAMAS OF MARLOWE ?
 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE : FOUR PLAYS : TAMBURLAINE , PARTS ONE AND
TWO , THE JEW OF MALTA ,EDWARD II AND DR. FAUSTAUS : NEW MERMAID .
10. WHY IS MARLOWE CALLED THE FATHER OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA?
 MARLOWE IS REALLY THE FATHER OF ENGLISH DRAMA
 BECAUSE HE IS THE FIRST TO PERCIEVE THE CAPACITIES FOR NOBLE ART
INHERENT IN THE ROMANTIC DRAMA.
11. WHO IS THE FATHER OF ENGLISH DRAMA ?
 HENRIK IBSEN IS FAMOUSLY KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA
AND IT IS WORTH RECOGNISING HOW LITERAL AND ASSESSMENT THAT IS .

8. 12. WHAT ARE THE FOUR PRIMARY TYPES OF DRAMA ?
 TRAGEDY ,COMEDY , TRAGIC COMEDY , AND MELO DRAMA ARE THE FOUR MAIN
TYPES OF DRAMA .ALTHOOUGHT THESE GENRES EMERGED AT SEPARATE TIME ,
EACHN HAS ITS OWN DISTINCT QUALITIES . ALL OF THEM , HOWEVER ,PLAY
IMPORTANT ROLES CONTEMPORARY CULTURES AND SHOULD BE RECOGNISED.
13 . TRAGEDY ARE ONE OF THE MOST COMMON AND POPULAR TYPES OF DRAMA
14 . THE 16th CENTURY AND 17th CENTURY ENGLAND WAS PERHAP THE MOST
IMPORTANT PERIOND FOR DRAMA .
15. AT THIS TIME ,MOST PLAYS WERE WRITTEN IN VERSES IN IAMBIC
PENTANMETER
16. IN ADDITION TO WILLIAM SHAKESPERE, CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, BEN
JONSON ARE IMPORTANT PLAYWRIGHTS OF THIS PERIOD.

9. •ETYMOLOGICALLY, THE WORDS DRAMA COMES FROM THE GREEK
WORD “ DRAO” WHICH MEANS “ TO DO / TO ACT”.
•DRAMA , POPULARLY UNDERSTOOD AS A PERFORMING ART, IS ONE OF
THE MAJOR OF REPRESENTATION OF FICTION.
•DRAMA , IN LITERATURE IS CHARACTERIZEED BY A NARRATIVE WITH
DIALOGUES AND PERFORMANCE

10. REVENGE TRAGEDY AS ONE OF THE GENRE OF THE ELIZABETHAN
DRAMA
 THE REVENGE TRAGEDY , OR REVENGE PLAY, IS A DRAMATIC GENRE IN WHICH
THE PROTAGONIST SEEKS REVENGE FOR AN IMAGED OR ACTUAL INJURY.
 THE SUCCESS OF THE GENRE WAS NOT ONLY DUE TO ITS BLOODY , CRIMINA L,
AND THEREFORE EXCITING ACTION BUT ALSO TO THE TOPICALLY OF REVENGE
AT THAT TIME
 IN REVENGE PLAYS QUESTION WERE RAISED WHICH CONCERNED THE
ELIZABETHANS AND WHICH MADE THEM REFLECT ON THEIR OWN SITUATION
AND ATTTITUDES.
 MOST REVENGE TRAGEDIES SHARE SOME BASIC ELEMENT : A PLAY WITHIN A
PLAY , MAD SCENES, A VENGEFUL ONES, ONE OR SEVERAL GORY SCENES, AND,
MOST IMPORTANTLY A CENTRAL CHARACTER WHO HAS SERIOUS GRIEVANCE
AGAINST A FORMIDABLE OPPONENT.
 THE REVENGE TRAGEDY ENJOYED GREAT POPULARITY IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY DUE TO ROMANTIC LOVE INCIDENT, PARTLY TO THE INFLUENCE OF
SENECA, AND A STRONG OBESSESSION FOR WEALTH.

11. REVENGE TRAGEDIES
 A REVENGE PLAY IS ALSO A REVENGE TRAGEDY THIS KIND OF TRAGEDY IS
BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE PERSUIT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT OF REVENGE .IT IS
BLOOD ASKING FOR BLOOD . THE REVENGE TRAGEDY WAS VERY POPULAR
DUIRNG THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD AND IT OWED POPULARITY LARGELY TO
THE INFLUENCE OF SENECA AND ANCIENT ROMAN DRAMA . THE
ELIZABETHAN WRITERS USUSALLY REPRESENTED THEM ON STAGES TO
SATISTFY THE OPPOSITE OF THE CONTEMPORARY AUDIENCE FOR VIOLENCE
AND HORROR.
 IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND THE REVENGE TRAGEDY WAS VERY POPULAR .
MANY PALYS OF THIS KIND BY SEVERAL PLAYWRIGHT, INCLUDING WILLIAM
SHAKESPEAR AND CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE WERE WRITTEN AND STAGED IN
THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES .

12. FAMOUS DRAMATIST TRAGEDY OF THE ELIZABETHAN ERA
 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWES FAMOUS TRAGEDIES :
 TAMBURLAINE (1587)
 DOCTOR FAUSTAUS (C. 1588)
 THE JEW OF MALTA (1589)
 EDWARD II (c. 1593)
 “HAMLET” WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHKESPEARE IN BETWEEN 1599 AND 1601
 “THE SPANISH TRAGEDY” WRITTEN BY THOMAS KYD IN BETWEEN 1582 AND 1592
 THEIR PLAYS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT POPULAR REVENGE TRAGEDIES IN
THE ELIZABETHAN ERA

13. STUCTURE OF REVENGE TRAGEDY WITH REFERENCE TO
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
 Structure
 One of the most brilliant works by the great English poet and play wright Christopher
Marlowe , famous tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta was produce in about 1590 and
perished in 1633 . A tragedy in five acts it relate the story OF Barabas , power –hungry
man of business who uses his financial skills as well as trickery to advance in Malta’s
villianius Christian society .

14. Biography of Christopher Marlowe and his
contribution in English Drama
Birth : Baptized 26 Feb, 1564 , Canterbury, United
Kingdom
Mother : Katherine Arthur
Father : John Marlowe
Education : Graduated from Corpus Christ College ,
Cambridge Bachelor of Arts in 1584.
HE was famous for his establishment of dramatic
“Blank verse”
Christopher Marlowe was the first writer to prove how
effective and impressive “Blank verse”; be used in
Drama.
Death: 30 may, 1593

15. Common theme of revenge tragedy during the Elizabethan period
 Revenge tragedy drama in which the dominant is revenge for a real or imagine injury - ;it
was a favourite form of English tragedy in the Elizabethan period .
 The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe the main Protagonist of the play and the play
can be co0nsidered as a revenge play because the Protagoni9st him self is revengeful in
nature and type .
 Hence we can say that the revenge was all cause due to “Hatred” , “Jealousy “ and so many
hateful thought .

16. Conclusion
 Notably Marlowe things that tragedies are not limiting greatness or weakness but rather
about supporting human aspiration whose pursuit result inclusion of glory in the
defination of man .
 As a tragedies move from Elizabethan period toward the Jacobean era and the next
century the revenge degenerate in to crude melo -drama and threw was pilling up of
horror upon horror’s head .
 Murder and blood shed were introduce in abundance to provide thrills and sensation to
de generate taste of the theater goers .
 For centuries human history has stayed consistence . Although man is the master of his
own destiny , he failed more often than he succeed .
 The modern man’s tragedy is strangely Elizabethan in style , and particularly Marlovian.